Nancy Wake – They Called Her The “White Mouse” – Incredible Allied SOE Agent of World War Two
September 21, 2017
Second World War Fighter Planes – Rapid Development of an Essential Technology
September 21, 2017
The Age of Concrete and High Explosives – Massive Fortifications Of WWII
September 21, 2017
The Desert Fox: Erwin Rommel – One of the Most Famous German Commanders of WWII
September 21, 2017
When Spartacus and His Renegade Gladiators Gave the Romans All They Could Handle
September 21, 2017
War Wagons: One of the Strangest Military Formations Ever Seen in Europe
September 21, 2017
A Rumble In The Jungle: The Secret Story Of Force 136 – Commandos In WW2
September 21, 2017
Richard Bong, USA’s Legendary Ace Of Aces, Died During A Test Flight
September 21, 2017
“Walking Veteran of WWI” – The WWI Veteran Who Hiked to Monthly Veterans Meetings in Jefferson City
September 21, 2017
Improvised Weapons used in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
September 21, 2017
7 Kills In WWII and 14 In Korea, US Flying Ace George Davis Died When He Took On 12 MiGs
September 21, 2017
Personal Items From WWII Discovered At Arnhem Bridge
September 20, 2017
Thomas Hudner: Medal of Honor Recipient – He Crashed His Plane To Save His Comrade
September 20, 2017
“The God of War” – Soviet Artillery of the Cold War
September 20, 2017
The Battle of Williamsburg – A Massive Withdrawal Over Difficult Ground
September 20, 2017
The Polish Thermopylae: 800 vs 42,000 at Wizna, 1939
September 20, 2017
The Notorious Klaus Barbie: The Butcher Of Lyon
September 20, 2017
Charles Whittlesey, the Commander of the Lost Battalion
September 20, 2017
Why The Nazis Beheaded a Famous Author’s Sister – Then Sent His Family the Execution Bill
September 20, 2017
Operation Mincemeat – How the Allies Tricked Hitler to open the gates of Sicily
September 20, 2017
Three Medieval Wars in North Africa
September 20, 2017
Raiders and Traders: The Vikings Conquer England
September 20, 2017
Krak des Chevaliers – The Impenetrable Castle, Captured With A Single Sheet of Paper
September 20, 2017
World War Two – Invasion and Occupation
September 20, 2017
The Military Campaigns of Frederick Barbarossa
September 20, 2017
The Final Attempts On Hitler’s Life, Before He Killed Himself
September 20, 2017
Making Magna Carta: King John’s Civil War
September 19, 2017
Charles Rogers: Medal of Honor Recipient
September 19, 2017
How Churchill’s Relative Survived a Concentration Camp
September 19, 2017
Operation Market Garden: The Assault that could have Changed the War
September 19, 2017
Mithridates the Poisoner King: Hallucinogenic Honey, Venom Arrows, and More
September 19, 2017
The Assassination of The Butcher of Prague – Reinhard Heydrich
September 19, 2017
True Innovations of the Civil War
September 19, 2017
Killed When Crash Landing His Damaged Bomber, Pilot Cyril Barton Managed To Save His Entire Crew
September 19, 2017
How Gallipoli And The ANZAC Memorial Parade Inspired A Classic WW2 Song
September 19, 2017
For 59 Days 30 Soviet Soldiers Were Under Siege In This House, They Never Surrendered
September 19, 2017
Former US Navy SEAL Bob Kerrey Represents the Duality of War
September 19, 2017
Bolivian Boneyards Revisited. Part 1, El Alto Airport , La Paz, Bolivia – by Hans Wiesman
September 19, 2017
The Battle of Britain – One of the Most Important Aerial Campaigns in History
September 18, 2017
Keeping The Promise – Air Force veteran finishes career while commander of 24th NORAD Region
September 18, 2017
US Pilot Gerald Young: Rescued Comrades from the Jungle of Vietnam
September 18, 2017
Field Marshal Walter Model: a German Commander of WWII
September 18, 2017
The Nazi Invasion of Poland in the Opening Stages of World War Two
September 18, 2017
Rudolf Witzig: Commander of the Eben Emael Fortress Attack
September 18, 2017
Alternative History: The Roman Civil War
September 18, 2017
Fearless Escapes Over (And Under) The Berlin Wall
September 18, 2017
Night Witches – Soviet Female Flying Aces Who Struck Terror Into the Hearts of the German Wehrmacht
September 18, 2017
Horrifying, Tragic, Inspirational – How the Nazis Destroyed Lidice and the World Preserved its Memory
September 18, 2017
“The Great Army” – The Vikings at Their Peak
September 18, 2017
A Fatal Failing Of Intelligent Leadership in the Vietnam War – The Battle Of Lima Site 85
September 18, 2017
Hanns Scharff – Nazi Germany’s POW “Master Interrogator” Who Used Kindness Not Brutality
September 18, 2017
Hastings and Beyond: The Norman Conquest of England
September 18, 2017
The Battle Against the Cathars – Terrible Times in Medieval Europe
September 18, 2017
Rudolph Hess: The Nazi Who Flew to Britain in 1941 to try to Make a Peace Deal
September 17, 2017
Pilot Ed Freeman: Awarded the MOH for service at the Battle of Ia Drang Valley
September 17, 2017
SS Battlegroup Commander Otto Weidinger
September 17, 2017
Frank Luke, Medal of Honor Recipient – The “Arizona Balloon Buster”
September 17, 2017
The Youngest (Confirmed) British Soldier of World War One
September 17, 2017
Hans-Ulrich Rudel – The Flying Tank Buster Who Flew More Than 2,000 Missions And Killed Over 500 Tanks
September 17, 2017
When 20 Canadian Prisoners Were Murdered By The Waffen SS In Normandy – The Ardenne Abbey Massacre
September 17, 2017
Hannibal Barca: Rome’s Most Dangerous Enemy
September 17, 2017
From Marcellus to Caesar – The Greatest Generals of Ancient Rome
September 17, 2017
In WWII, A Stranded Dutch Warship Disguised Itself As An Island To Evade Japanese Bombers
September 17, 2017
The Rogue British Officer Who Broke All the Rules, Founded the SAS, and was Nicknamed by the Germans, “The Phantom Major”
September 17, 2017
Deadly Russian Sniper Roza Shanina Made 54 Confirmed Kills in Less than a Year
September 17, 2017
Fearing Crash & Detonation On Takeoff, The First Atomic Bomb Had To Be Assembled In Flight
September 17, 2017
Vice Admiral James Stockdale, US Navy: Medal of Honor
September 16, 2017
Justice Chambers Personified the Marines in the Pacific in WWII
September 16, 2017
The Deadliest Weapons Of The First World War
September 16, 2017
M/Sgt Nicholas Oresko Set Out Alone To Inspire His Men
September 16, 2017
First Lt. Harry L. Martin Sacrificed his life for his Marines
September 16, 2017
The Youngest and Oldest Living Medal of Honor Recipients Both Jumped on Live Grenades
September 16, 2017
The Vikings and The Franks – Brutal Conflict in Early Europe
September 16, 2017
Japan Tried To Set The U.S. West Coast Ablaze in WWII- It Nearly Worked
September 16, 2017
Napoleon In The War For The Spanish Peninsula: A Massive Operation
September 16, 2017
How a Single Trumpet Changed The Course of a Battle
September 16, 2017
How 60 Coast Guard Cutters Saved Over 400 Men On D-Day
September 16, 2017
The Four Worst Mistakes Of The Axis Powers During WWII
September 16, 2017
How Hitler Transformed the German Officer Corps Before and During WWII
September 16, 2017
Giants of the Sky – The Zeppelins of WW1
September 15, 2017
Major Charles J. Loring Jr: Dived Into a Korean Artillery Battery
September 15, 2017
World War One – The Early Years of Erwin Rommel
September 15, 2017
James E. Williams, Medal of Honor: The Most Decorated Enlisted Sailor in the US Navy
September 15, 2017
Staff Sergeant William Bordelon: First US Marine from Texas to be awarded MOH
September 15, 2017
When The French Army Invaded Germany in 1939 To Support Poland, All Did Not Go As Planned
September 15, 2017
“A War Overlooked” – W. Martin, WWII Veteran Performed Anti-Submarine Service Aboard Planes in the Caribbean
September 15, 2017
Two of History’s Greatest Generals – Wellington and Grant
September 15, 2017
The Daring Bruneval Raid To Capture German Radar Technology
September 15, 2017
Jacklyn H. Lucas – Mr Immortal – Awarded the MoH age 17 – Used His Body To Shield His Squad From Two Grenades
September 15, 2017
When Rome Crushed Israel: The Siege of Masada
September 15, 2017
Midway: The Turning Point in the Pacific
September 14, 2017
Wellington: The Great Military Leader Who Led His Armies To Victory Against Napoleon
September 14, 2017
The Man Who Saved the World From Nuclear Destruction
September 14, 2017
How Britain And America Learned To Work Together On Intelligence In WWII
September 14, 2017
Roland Freisler – Hitler’s Screaming Nazi Judge
September 14, 2017
The War of The Emperor Go-Daigo
September 14, 2017
The Birth of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment in the American Civil War
September 14, 2017
“Armored experience” – Veteran discusses service with 14th Armored Cavalry in 1960s Germany
September 14, 2017
Cresson Kearny – Nuclear War Survival Skills
September 13, 2017
The Battle Of Alesia: The Roman Siege That Completed Julius Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul
September 13, 2017
In WWII, The Allies Often Worked with Local Partisans Against Nazi Germany
September 13, 2017
American Propaganda Posters in World War II
September 13, 2017
Living Legacies: the Real Band of Brothers Vets Who Just Won’t Quit
September 13, 2017
Things That The Russians Did Right During Operation Barbarossa
September 13, 2017
A World War Two Disaster For The Allies: The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17
September 13, 2017
Vera Atkins: Incredibly Brave British SOE Squadron Officer of World War Two
September 12, 2017
The Last Years Of World War Two: The German Fighting Retreat from Finland, 1944
September 12, 2017
Michael Wittmann: German Panzer Ace Of World War Two
September 12, 2017
Harriet Tubman: Former Slave Who Led Union Troops Into Battle in 1863
September 12, 2017
The Laconia Incident: How Friendly Fire Changed POW Treatment for the Rest of the War
September 12, 2017
Aim, Shoot, and Sink the Enemy Fleets – Warship Rising Now on Android and iOS
September 12, 2017
True Story of a Teenager’s Journey from the Nation’s Capital to the Korean War and Back to Arlington Cemetery
September 12, 2017
How a band of German Pirates Captured 15 Ships During World War 1
September 12, 2017
The Korean War – A Messy Conflict In The 1950s
September 12, 2017
Tommy Prince Was So Quiet, Sometimes Instead Of Killing Germans He Would Steal Their Shoes
September 12, 2017
Military Technologies Invented In WWI That We Still Use Today
September 12, 2017
Unseen Pictures Of The Biggest Tank Battle of WWII
September 12, 2017
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor – And The Exiled Queen of Holland, The First Female Billionaire
September 12, 2017
Korean adventure – Career of late Air Force general highlighted by service in Republic of Korea
September 11, 2017
In WWII, Some German Officers Took A Big Risk And Stood Up To Hitler
September 11, 2017
This German Flying Ace Saved an American Pilot; Years Later They Found Each Other Again
September 11, 2017
American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville – Fighting Joe Hooker and Robert E. Lee
September 11, 2017
WWI – Baptism by gas: The Canadians join the 2nd Battle of Ypres
September 11, 2017
The Tragedy of Lieutenant General Lesley McNair: The Highest Ranking US Soldier Killed in WWII
September 11, 2017
Dawn of the Tank Age: the Battle of Cambrai, 1917
September 11, 2017
Korean War: Chipyong-Ni – One Of The Greatest Regimental Defense Actions In Military History
September 11, 2017
The Los Angeles WWII Zoot Suit Racial Attacks
September 11, 2017
Super Weapons That Actually Saw Service During WWII
September 11, 2017
The Deadly Defiant, A Game-Changing British Warplane in WW2
September 11, 2017
Simo Häyhä Was The Deadliest Sniper in History; They Called Him ‘The White Death’
September 11, 2017
Japan’s Deadly WW2 Kamikaze Pilots
September 11, 2017
Operation Husky – The Battle for Sicily Which Launched The Italian Campaign
September 11, 2017
The WW2 Naval Battle of Savo Island in the Pacific
September 11, 2017
Some German Soldiers Did Not Surrender Until Months After the End of WW2
September 11, 2017
After Victory At D-Day, Fierce Fighting In The French Countryside
September 10, 2017
March to Surrender: A German Operation in the Dying Days of WWII
September 10, 2017
World War Two – Three of Germany’s Top StuG Aces
September 10, 2017
1st Lieutenant Victor Kandle: Medal of Honor Recipient in WWII
September 10, 2017
Master Segeant Travis Watkins: MOH for Refusing to Give Up in Korea
September 10, 2017
This Hellish Campaign Has Been Largely Forgotten: The Aleutian Islands During World War II
September 10, 2017
British Naval Intelligence: Well Equipped for WW2
September 10, 2017
John D. Bulkeley, Commander of the USS Endicott – A daring attack in WWII
September 10, 2017
Lt. Gen Wainwright, Prisoner Of War, Who Was Awarded the Medal of Honor in WW2
September 10, 2017
Five things Japan could have done differently, for a better chance of Winning in WWII
September 10, 2017
Of Course, we all knew this… Secret WW2 German Inventions – The Jetpack
September 10, 2017
In WW2 This Amazing Woman Fought Japanese In The Philippines, Aided The Resistance, And Resisted Interrogation
September 10, 2017
The U-Boat War: A Vital and Misjudged Part of WWII
September 10, 2017
“I guess they didn’t know I was a Marine” – Heroism and Honor at Guadalcanal
September 10, 2017
An Amazing Story Of Close Combat Over a Small Tennis Court During WW2
September 10, 2017
Innovation and Dedication – Nursing and Medicine in the Korean War
September 09, 2017
Navy Announces Plan to Survey Wreck of WWI Cruiser San Diego
September 09, 2017
How the British Military Learned in Advance About the V2 Rocket – and How They Responded
September 09, 2017
I-17 & the Shelling of the Bankline Oil Refinery – February 23, 1942 – by Martin K.A. Morgan
September 09, 2017
Living In No Man’s Land: The Legend of the Wild Deserters of the First World War
September 09, 2017
How Military Intelligence Won The North African Campaign in World War Two
September 09, 2017
The Submarine Which Inspired The Movie – U-Boat 96, And The Film “Das Boot”
September 09, 2017
Death in the Skies in World War Two – The RAF and the Luftwaffe face off in Battle
September 09, 2017
War Of Subterfuge – Four Great Military Deceptions of World War Two
September 09, 2017
When France Was Invaded By Nazi Germany, She Suffered A Rapid Defeat
September 09, 2017
The Japanese Diplomat Who Saved Thousands of Jews During WWII
September 09, 2017
Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis, Recipient of the Only Victoria Cross for D-Day
September 09, 2017
Fighting Joe Hooker Worked Hard To Become a General in the American Civil War
September 08, 2017
Wounded in Action – Powerful German Officers of WWII
September 08, 2017
Treachery – The Spies Who Betrayed British Military Secrets During the Cold War
September 08, 2017
14-18 NOW Launches Global Search For Poppies Seen At The Tower Of London
September 08, 2017
Active duty, Reserve, Military Veterans, First Responders, All To Receive Free Haircuts On 9-11
September 08, 2017
Night at the Tower,The World Remembers – September Events at the National World War I Museum and Memorial
September 08, 2017
From Game of Thrones to Lord of the Rings – Movies And TV Shows Inspired By Real Wars
September 08, 2017
True or False – Bizarre Myths And Legends which have Gathered around the Nazis
September 08, 2017
Tony Stein – The Inventive Warrior – An amazing American Marine in WW2
September 08, 2017
Incredible Self-Sacrifice – Sergeant George D. Libby, Medal Of Honor
September 08, 2017
These Weapons were Responsible For The Deaths Of The Soldiers Who Used Them
September 08, 2017
The First Medal of Honor Recipient of WW2 Stood His Ground at Pearl Harbor
September 08, 2017
The Reluctant Hero Who was awarded a Victoria Cross… Twice
September 08, 2017
A Massive Operation – Raising A U-Boat To Recover Her Precious Cargo
September 08, 2017
The ‘Cisco Kids’: Tuskegee Airmen brothers George and Arnold Cisco
September 08, 2017
The most decorated Marine in United States history – Chesty Puller, American Hero
September 08, 2017
Eric Liddell, the Record Breaking Olympian Who Kept Hope Alive in a Japanese Prison Camp
September 08, 2017
When Italy Destroyed More American Planes Than the German Luftwaffe
September 07, 2017
The WWI Experience of Germany’s WWII Commanders
September 07, 2017
Erwin Rommel in the Invasion of France in WWII
September 07, 2017
Field Marshal Erich von Manstein – German Commander in World War II
September 07, 2017
The Incredible Defence of Westerplatte – Gdańsk, Poland, 1939
September 07, 2017
Stunning Must See Video Of A Dakota AC-47 T, Acting As Lethal Spooky Killer
September 07, 2017
Japanese Fire Balloons and the Tragic Tale of the Last WWII Casualties on US Soil
September 07, 2017
The Gray Ranks – The Fighting Boy-Scouts Of The Polish WWII Resistance
September 07, 2017
Amazing Pictures – The Lost Tommies in Colour
September 07, 2017
The Woman Who Smuggled Over 2,500 Jewish Kids Out Of the Warsaw Ghetto In Suitcases or Medical Bags
September 07, 2017
Original D-Day footage: US Troops storm the Beaches of Normandy (Watch)
September 07, 2017
This Brave Pilot Climbed Out On To The Wing Of His Stricken Bomber At 13,000 Feet
September 07, 2017
The Only Marine to Earn a Medal of Honor for Actions as a POW, Donald Cook Was Truly Unbreakable in the Face of the Enemy
September 07, 2017
“Hobart’s Funnies” – The Crazy-Looking Tank Mods That Helped Win D-Day
September 07, 2017
The Iowa Class: A Departure from Traditional US Battleship Design
September 07, 2017
John J. McGinty III – Racing through the Jungles of Vietnam to Save his Men
September 06, 2017
Willi Langkeit – German Panzer Commander of World War Two
September 06, 2017
The Battle of Waterloo and the Final Downfall of Napoleon
September 06, 2017
Going Nuclear – Germany and Japan Fail to Build the Bomb in WWII
September 06, 2017
Canadian Pilot Alan McLeod Took Down Enemy Planes Even as He Crashed
September 06, 2017
How An Explosion In Northern New Jersey Put 62,000 People Onto The Front Lines Of World War 1
September 06, 2017
Making History – The Ship’s Cook Who Grabbed A .50 Cal To Shoot Down Enemy Planes At Pearl Harbor
September 06, 2017
The Forgotten War In S.W. Pacific: Air Raids From Australia Against The Dutch East Indies
September 06, 2017
Ham & Jam – The Daring Glider Operation To Take Pegasus Bridge
September 06, 2017
The Defense of Brest Fortress In WW2 – “We’ll Die But We Won’t Leave The Fortress”
September 06, 2017
The Much-Reviled Sir Douglas Haig May Have Been The Best Man For a Terrible Job
September 06, 2017
‘Lucky Luciano’ – The Father of Organized Crime Won His Freedom by Helping the US Government during WW2
September 06, 2017
Operation Varsity – Crossing Of The Rhine In The Final Months Of World War 2
September 06, 2017
Pierre Ortiz: French Legionnaire, US Marine, Hollywood Actor, German Nightmare
September 05, 2017
Richard the Lionheart’s Secret Weapon During the Third Crusade
September 05, 2017
The Tragedy of Exercise Tiger: A Training Mission That Left More GIs Dead Than Utah Beach
September 05, 2017
Franz von Werra: Only Western-Held POW to Return to Combat
September 05, 2017
Honor: Counterproductive Japanese War Ethics in WWII
September 05, 2017
Women’s Battalion of Death: First World War All-Female Forces From Russia
September 05, 2017
Historical Re-enactment Event Demonstrates Life at a former World War II Prisoner of War Camp
September 05, 2017
The Submachine Gun – An Infantry Weapon Which Changed The Face Of Warfare
September 05, 2017
Warren G. H. Crecy: the Baddest Man in the 761st
September 05, 2017
Medal of Honor – One American’s Daring Escape from German Soldiers In WW2
September 05, 2017
When The Finns And The Snow Resisted The Soviet Invasion In The Winter War
September 05, 2017
FUSAG: The Ghost Army – Patton’s D-Day Force That Was Only A Threat In The Enemy’s Imagination
September 05, 2017
Banzai Cliff, The Site of Hundreds of Suicides at the End of the Battle of Saipan
September 05, 2017
“Sharing my story” – Local veteran served as parts specialist with infantry battalion in Vietnam War
September 05, 2017
Operation Drumbeat – U-Boat Happy Days On The USA East Coast
September 04, 2017
The Real Fury: Patton’s Disastrous 1945 Raid to Rescue His Son-in-Law
September 04, 2017
A Bridge Too Far: The Amazing Story of the Battle of Arnhem
September 04, 2017
Nine Reasons Why The Allies Won The Battle of Britain
September 04, 2017
‘Scarface’ – The Elite Nazi Commando Who Hitler Sent To Rescue Mussolini
September 04, 2017
Finding The Voices Of The Veterans – Ann Hamlet Collects The Memoirs Of Veterans For Exciting New Book
September 04, 2017
When Cadets At The US Air Force Academy Realized Their Janitor Was Medal Of Honor War Hero
September 04, 2017
Get Out of Jail Free – How Monopoly Helped Allied POWs Escape
September 04, 2017
The Ship’s Cook Who Took Over A .50-Caliber Machine Gun To Fight The Japanese At Pearl Harbor
September 04, 2017
“What we went through” – James Belshe, WWII Veteran Earns Purple Heart for Injury Sustained in the Philippines
September 04, 2017
The WW2 Raid on Amiens Prison – A Rescue Mission Which Turned Into A Bloodbath
September 04, 2017
Franz Staudegger – German Tiger Ace in the Battle of Kursk
September 04, 2017
Calvin L. Graham: America’s Youngest WWII Hero
September 03, 2017
The Battle of Salamanca: Wellington at his Opportunistic Best
September 03, 2017
Covert German Military Growth During The Interwar Years
September 03, 2017
Aristides de Sousa Mendes Saved More People than Schindler but Died a Pariah
September 03, 2017
How Extraterrestrials Got Japanese-Americans Interned in 1942
September 03, 2017
William Hitler, Nephew of Adolf, Joined the US Navy to Fight The Nazis in WW2
September 03, 2017
Building Armies in the Harsh World of Medieval England
September 03, 2017
The Longbow: Its Rise and Dominance – It Totally Changed Medieval Warfare
September 03, 2017
Understanding the Crusader Mind – How Crusaders Might Have Thought And Felt About Their Wars
September 03, 2017
The Battle of Stoney Creek – A Minor Fight That Changed History
September 03, 2017
The Amazing Career of General Billy Mitchell, American Father of the Skies
September 03, 2017
This WW1 VC Charged The Enemy Trenches Captured 6 Machine Guns and 100 Infantry
September 03, 2017
The Man Who Escaped 200 Times From A Nazi PoW Camp To Visit His Lover
September 03, 2017
China’s Long Fight Against Japan – 1937 to 1945
September 02, 2017
WWII: Panzer Unit Grossdeutschland and the Last Ditch Defence of Germany
September 02, 2017
The SS – One of the Most Infamous Fighting Forces in History
September 02, 2017
Poetic Justice and the Plot to Kill Hitler
September 02, 2017
Alois Brunner: One Of The Most Notorious Nazi Officers – He Died Unpunished
September 02, 2017
Famous Medieval Knights – Warriors, Leaders, And Scholars
September 02, 2017
Nancy Harkness Love: A Symbol of Pride, Passion, and Perseverance In WW2
September 02, 2017
History of the Hand Grenade – An Essential Infantry Weapon In Modern Warfare
September 02, 2017
The Curious Tale of an Extremely Jinxed Ship – The USS William D. Porter (DD-579)
September 02, 2017
Lucky As Hell – Air Force veteran transitioned from transport to jet aircraft during Cold War
September 01, 2017
In World War Two, The Germans Had Big Plans – Here Are Five Which Did Not Succeed
September 01, 2017
Incredible Art From The First World War
September 01, 2017
The Nazi Invasion of the Balkans & Yugoslavia – A Costly Victory
September 01, 2017
George H. Bush Narrowly Escaped Being Executed And Eaten By The Japanese in WWII
September 01, 2017
When He Ran Out of Grenades He Started Throwing Empty Beer Bottles and Earned the Victoria Cross
September 01, 2017
The Awesome Alaska Class: America’s (Not Quite) Battlecruisers
September 01, 2017
Refusing To Abandon The Wounded, Chaplain Emil Kapaun Remained Behind to Care for His Men and Died in a Korean POW Camp
September 01, 2017
On His First Mission, This American Air Force Misfit Saved His Plane And Was Awarded The Medal of Honor
September 01, 2017
When An American Submarine Took Out a Japanese Troop Train and Much More in the Pacific in WW2
September 01, 2017
Tsingtao: A Microcosm of the First World War
September 01, 2017
Fighting for Both Sides: the Spanish Army in the Napoleonic Wars
September 01, 2017
Lightning Strike: When the Americans Killed Japanese Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor
September 01, 2017
Wargaming to Unveil StrumTiger Augmented Reality Experience at AusArmourfest
September 01, 2017
Battles Of Military History: When Fighting Spirit Overcame The Odds
September 01, 2017
Private Dirk J. Vlug: the Bane of Japanese Tanks – Fighting in the Philippines in WW2
September 01, 2017
SS Panzer General Sepp Dietrich – one of the principal German tank commanders of WWII
September 01, 2017
The Rosary Paratrooper – Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte
August 31, 2017
Germany and Italy in WWII – A Difficult Relationship
August 31, 2017
The Lapland War: A Fight For Finland To Leave The War
August 31, 2017
Robert Anderson Hoover of Nashville, Tennessee: the Father of Aerobatics
August 31, 2017
Serbian WWI soldiers who died in the Netherlands
August 31, 2017
Disease, Starvation, and the Brutal Russian Winter – Why Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia Failed
August 31, 2017
Leading by Example: John J. Pershing, Prime Mentor for Future US Army Generals
August 31, 2017
Punishing the Enemy, Feeding his Men: How General Ulysses S. Grant Changed the Course of the Civil War
August 31, 2017
Make Room in Your Schedule for the CAF Red Tail Squadron Fall Event Line-up
August 31, 2017
New Video Game: NUMANTIA
August 31, 2017
Wounded, Promoted, Decorated – Adolf Hitler in the First World War
August 31, 2017
This Member Of The Nazi Party Became Known as a Modern Buddha
August 31, 2017
Amiens, 1918 – The WW1 Battle In France Which Sealed Germany’s Coming Defeat
August 31, 2017
The Battle of Stalingrad: The Battle that Broke Hitler
August 31, 2017
The Devil of Rabaul: Japanese Ace of Aces With 88 Kills Who Died In The Passenger Seat
August 31, 2017
This Fighter Pilot Saved a Bomber Squadron From German Fighter Attacks For over Half an Hour – Alone
August 31, 2017
Salon Kitty: The WWII Spy Ring Based in a Brothel
August 31, 2017
Operation Linebacker II – The Massive Bombing Campaign That Brought Peace In Vietnam
August 30, 2017
Edwin Swales VC: This Lancaster Bomber Pilot’s Sacrifice Saved His Crew
August 30, 2017
Commander Rudder (2nd Rangers) 10 years later – I Took My Son to Pointe Du Hoc and Omaha Beach
August 30, 2017
Admiral Yamamoto, The Architect Of The Sneak Attack On Pearl Harbor
August 30, 2017
The Black Dispatches From the Civil War Spies
August 30, 2017
To Make Life Easier For The People Of Occupied Crete, The Allies Kidnapped The Nazi Commander
August 30, 2017
Restoring Honor – The Americans Take Hill 609 in WW2 Tunisia
August 30, 2017
The First Man to Sink a Japanese Warship – The Battle Of Wake Island
August 29, 2017
Meet Chief Dog Sinbad, The Cheerful and Brave Coast Guard Mascot of WW2
August 29, 2017
Flying Tigers Veteran Glen Beneda Never Forgot How The Chinese Saved His Life, Nor Did They Forget Him
August 29, 2017
Two new titles from the History Press reviewed by Mark Barnes
August 29, 2017
Hidden War Messages That Weren’t Found Until Much, Much Later
August 29, 2017
After Pearl Harbor, A Japanese Pilot Crash-Landed On A Hawaiian Island And Tried to Occupy It
August 29, 2017
Hero Of Guadalcanal: John Basilone, The Consummate US Marine In The Pacific
August 29, 2017
A “mentally unstable, violent fanatic” – The Horrific War Record of Oskar Dirlewanger
August 29, 2017
P.1000 Ratte – Paper Tiger or Nazi Super Tank
August 29, 2017
The Incredible Role of the International Red Cross and The Red Crescent Movements during WWII
August 29, 2017
Nazi German Special Forces: The Brandenburg Regiment
August 28, 2017
Outnumbered 10 to 1 – In The Korean War, UN forces Held Off A Chinese Force 10 Times Their Size For Two Days
August 28, 2017
“Building an Army” – Missouri general developed system of military conscription used in WWI
August 28, 2017
“Worth the expense” – Spouse of late veteran continues efforts to acquire military memorial marker
August 28, 2017
Napoleon Changed His World, And Ours
August 28, 2017
Three Great War related books from Uniform – Review by Mark Barnes
August 28, 2017
The History of World War Two is Well-Known – But Some Details Are Often Forgotten
August 28, 2017
Legendary British WW2 Field Marshal Montgomery – “Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance, insufferable in victory”
August 28, 2017
The Flaws of the Brilliant Civil War General “Stonewall” Jackson
August 28, 2017
The Dramatic Buildup to the Surrender of Axis Forces in Tunisia During WWII
August 28, 2017
Andersonville, The Notorious Confederate PoW Camp In The Civil War
August 28, 2017
Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Offensive That Brought The Soviets To 70km From Berlin
August 28, 2017
He put up such a fight in captivity that the Viet Cong executed him out of frustration
August 28, 2017
Flying the Me 262 – The First Operational Jet Fighter
August 28, 2017
Their lives for you – Battle of the Bulge veteran awarded France’s highest accolade
August 27, 2017
“Dogs Tags” – Director presents his World War II independent short film – Watch the trailer here
August 27, 2017
Battle of Khe Sanh May Have Been The Cause Of The Tet Offensive’s Success
August 27, 2017
Black Sheep One: The U.S. Marine Corps Ace Credited with the Highest Number of Kills In WWII – Gregory “Pappy” Boyington
August 27, 2017
The Hardest Day: The Battle of Britain, When All Was Almost Lost
August 27, 2017
Mantinea: Greeks Killing Each Other to Pave the Way for Conquest
August 27, 2017
Brand New Naval War Simulation Game – Mobile Battleship by Betterfun
August 27, 2017
The Cu Chi Tunnels: A Dangerous Underground Warzone in Vietnam
August 27, 2017
Battle of Wake Island – All Those Who Surrendered Were Tortured, 98 Were Machine-Gunned
August 27, 2017
Wounded, He Sacrificed Himself to Clear the way for his Platoon – James Stokes, VC
August 27, 2017
The Element of Surprise – Totally Effective Surprise Attacks in Military History
August 27, 2017
Purposely Going Down with His Ship, This WW2 Captain Saved Countless Lives And Was Awarded The MoH
August 27, 2017
This Reindeer Battalion of WWII Was Braver than Soviets, Tougher Than Tanks
August 27, 2017
UPDATED now with video: Wreckage From The USS Indianapolis Has Been Located
August 27, 2017
James Bond Author Ian Fleming’s Service in the British Intelligence During WWII
August 26, 2017
Mayaguez Incident, The Last Battle of the Vietnam War, 3 Marines Were Left Behind And Executed
August 26, 2017
The Invasion of Crete: The Great Paratroop Invasion Which Was So Costly For The Germans That It Became Their Last
August 26, 2017
The Disastrous Dieppe Raid That Carved The Path For All Future Allied Landing Operations
August 26, 2017
Adolf Eichmann, the Evil Architect of the Holocaust in WW2
August 26, 2017
Meet the Mad WW2 Major Who Charged Ashore With Bow, Arrow, And Longsword
August 26, 2017
Harold Ackroyd – A Selfless WWI Medic with More than 20 Separate VC Recommendations
August 26, 2017
In WW2, Peter Rupp Saved 14 American Soldiers from Certain Death at the Hands of the Nazis
August 26, 2017
Where Patton Awarded McAuliffe: The 101st Airborne HQ Chateau in Bastogne Revisited
August 26, 2017
The Angels of Mons – How Religion Helped Boost the Morale of British Troops in WWI
August 25, 2017
Doughboys on the Juvigny Plateau, 1918 – Guest Blog by Dr. Paul Dean
August 25, 2017
How Caesar Defeated 250,000 Gaulish Warriors Coming At Them From Two Sides With Only 60,000 Legionnaires
August 25, 2017
Clem Dowler Went From B-17 Ball Turret Gunner To Guerilla Fighter
August 25, 2017
The First Siege of Tobruk: Nazi Germany’s First Defeat on Land
August 25, 2017
Le Paradis – Where the SS Murdered 97 British Prisoners on May 27th 1940
August 25, 2017
Nancy Wake, in WWII – Freedom Fighter, Allied Agent and The Gestapo’s Most Wanted
August 25, 2017
John Baskeyfield VC: A Mighty Hero of the WW2 Battle of Arnhem
August 25, 2017
The Six Men Who Were Behind the July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler
August 24, 2017
Hannibal Barca: Rome’s Most Dangerous Enemy
August 24, 2017
The Terrible Conflict That Was The Vietnam War
August 24, 2017
The Bolo Knife – History, Development And Use Of An Iconic Weapon
August 24, 2017
The Story Behind “In Flanders Fields” – One Of The Most Famous War Poems Of History
August 24, 2017
The Battle of Mons, The First Clash Between the British And German Armies In WWI
August 24, 2017
“A moment’s notice” – Veteran Discusses Cold War Service with Air Force’s Titan II Missiles
August 24, 2017
“Benefits earned” – Army veteran of the Vietnam War encourages others to apply for VA benefits
August 24, 2017
“Faith and Fairness” – World War II Veteran’s Legacy Defined by Ministry, Education and Equal Rights
August 24, 2017
Calling all Airborne fans, Dale Dye needs your help to make a D-DAY movie about the 82nd Airborne
August 23, 2017
When the Soviets Shot Down A U-2 Spyplane, The Cold War Turned Hot
August 23, 2017
The Top Ten Most Expensive Wars the United States Has Been Involved In
August 23, 2017
10 Countries Invaded by Fascist Italy and Why They Invaded Each One
August 23, 2017
Hideki Tojo – Japanese WWII Prime Minister – Controversial To This Day
August 23, 2017
The Heroic World War Two Volunteer – Charles Joseph Coward
August 23, 2017
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz and the Danish Resistance in World War Two
August 23, 2017
“Faith and Fairness” – World War II Veteran’s Legacy Defined by Ministry, Education and Equal Rights
August 23, 2017
The Battle of Crete Was The Reason Hitler Abandoned Parachute Assaults For Good
August 23, 2017
When Soldiers, Sailors, And Civilians Celebrated Victory in Europe with a Riot in Halifax
August 23, 2017
Good “Old 666”, the Cursed Bomber that No One Wanted to Fly took on 17 Japanese Fighters Alone and Lived to Tell About It
August 22, 2017
An American Experience in Vietnam – 14 Sad But Powerful Images
August 22, 2017
Edward A. Carter, Jr. received the Medal of Honor for killing six soldiers and using the surviving two as a bodyshield
August 22, 2017
Intercept Saratoga – A Photo for Fidel Castro
August 22, 2017
10 Facts – The Battle of Falaise Pocket In World War Two
August 22, 2017
Presumed Dead, Eric Wilson was Posthumously Awarded the Victoria Cross
August 22, 2017
On Crucifix Hill, Captain Bobbie Brown Destroyed Three Enemy Bunkers And Was Awarded The Medal of Honor
August 22, 2017
For Lt. Col. Merritt, WWII only lasted 6 Hours: But he was Awarded a Victoria Cross
August 22, 2017
Liquid Fire – How Napalm Was Used In The Vietnam War
August 22, 2017
General Truscott, Who Apologized To The Dead Soldiers on Memorial Day 1945
August 22, 2017
Lifting The Lid On Fray Bentos – The Tank Which Held Out For 60 Hours In No-Man’s Land
August 21, 2017
This is Huge – Wreckage From The USS Indianapolis Has Been Located
August 21, 2017
‘I’m still a sailor’ – Lohman, Mo., Veteran Discusses Lengthy Career in Cold War-Era Navy
August 21, 2017
A Soviet Spy Who saved The “Big Three” at the Tehran Conference was 19 years old at the time
August 21, 2017
The Man Who Found The Ancient Greek City of Troy
August 21, 2017
Shooting Down 7 Aircraft In One Day, This Marine Was Awarded The Medal Of Honor On His First Mission
August 21, 2017
In WW2, General Eisenhower Lost a Bet and Had to Give General Montgomery His Own B-17
August 21, 2017
Why the Allies did not see Hitler’s Ardennes Offensive coming
August 21, 2017
When Allies Fight: Operation Torch and the Taking of North Africa
August 21, 2017
Samurai, Ninja, Ronin, And More – Seven Different Warrior Classes Of Feudal Japan
August 21, 2017
“Lucky” Yamaguchi: The Man Who Survived Both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombs
August 20, 2017
VC: In WWI Horace Augustus Curtis Charged The Enemy Trenches, Capturing 6 Machine Guns and 100 Infantry
August 20, 2017
“Sea Stories” – WWII veteran shares tales of service aboard troop transport in the Pacific
August 20, 2017
Heinz Guderian, The Father Of The Blitzkrieg – The Officer Who Defied Hitler
August 20, 2017
Biggest UK War Cemeteries in Europe
August 20, 2017
Half Blind Japanese Pilot Flies His Damaged Zero For 5 Hours, Then Refused Medical Attention Before Making His Report
August 19, 2017
The Inspiring Story of the Seach For a Family Veteran – by Jim Knudsen
August 19, 2017
Promotion And Controversy – The Meteoric Rise Of US General Mark W. Clark
August 19, 2017
Beutepanzer, How Germany Relied on Captured Military Vehicles To Continue The Fight in World War Two
August 19, 2017
Japanese Monster Aircraft Carrier Submarines – By Hans Wiesman
August 19, 2017
This Russian Refused To Launch Nuclear Missiles During The Cuban Missile Crisis – He Saved The World
August 19, 2017
In 1974, Hirō Onoda Became The Last Japanese World War Two Soldier To Surrender
August 19, 2017
When Malaria Sided With Napoleon: The Doomed British Walcheren Expedition That Cost 4,000 Lives
August 19, 2017
While His Maniac Brother was Busy Killing Jews, Albert Göring Worked Tirelessly to Save Them
August 19, 2017
Fazal Din: the Man Who Fought on despite the Hole in His Chest
August 19, 2017
Warren G. H. Crecy: the Baddest Man in the 761st
August 18, 2017
Life in Hitler’s Wartime Headquarters
August 18, 2017
The Duke of Wellington, Napoleon’s Arch-Enemy
August 18, 2017
Hitler Believed That D-Day Was a Feint
August 18, 2017
Last Man Standing – The Lone German Soldier Who Held Off A Whole Wave Of Russian Infantry and Tanks
August 18, 2017
Japan’s Onin War – A Vital Moment In The History Of Japan
August 18, 2017
Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty – The Priest who Converted an SS Commander
August 18, 2017
The Tragedy of the Destroyer USS Leopold
August 17, 2017
How the American Civil War Became a “Total War”
August 17, 2017
Ivan Pavlovich Sereda: the USSR’s Heroic Cook in World War Two
August 17, 2017
A Costly Failure: Germany’s Failed Attempts to Infiltrate Allied-Occupied Italy
August 17, 2017
Operation Halyard: An Airlift Operation that Saved 417 Allied Airmen In The Balkans
August 17, 2017
A Tale of Two Rebels: Allied Support for Desperate Partisan Resistance in World War Two
August 17, 2017
“Old soldiers fade away” – Missouri veteran served in the predecessor to U.S. Air Force in WWI
August 17, 2017
Nine Reasons Why the South Lost the American Civil War
August 17, 2017
The Careers of These Soldiers Were Transformed by the Arrival of Tanks
August 16, 2017
Get Ready to Feel the Noize with World of Tanks’ New Music
August 16, 2017
Allied Victory In The Hard-Fought Battle of Britain
August 16, 2017
From the Vikings to Vietnam – Five Wars in Which Drugs Fuelled the Fighting
August 16, 2017
Amazing – Douglas Brent Hegdahl III, “The Incredibly Stupid One”
August 16, 2017
José Arturo Castellanos Contreras: The Latino Schindler
August 16, 2017
Legion Vs Phalanx: Two Powerhouse Formations of the Ancient World
August 16, 2017
A Desperate Fight to the Death: RMS Carmania Vs. SMS Cap Trafalgar 1914
August 16, 2017
A Battle That Changed The Course of the Vietnam War – Hamburger Hill
August 16, 2017
In 1937, A Toilet Break Led to War Between China and Japan
August 16, 2017
“Appreciate their sacrifices” – Missouri veteran served with Army’s Veterinary Corps in World War I
August 15, 2017
The Equipment of the Samurai – Fearsome Warriors Armed to the Teeth
August 15, 2017
Manned Torpedoes and Massive Ships – The Alexandria Raid Of World War Two
August 15, 2017
Hadrian’s Wall – The Most Impressive Roman Construction in Britain
August 15, 2017
When a WW2 German Ace Stumbled Across a Crippled B-17 and Escorted It Home
August 15, 2017
Commanding Thousands – Approaches to Generalship on Ancient Battlefields
August 15, 2017
Operation Sealion: Hitler’s Doomed Plan to Invade Britain
August 15, 2017
Hell broke loose – Navy veteran served as corpsman with Marine Corps on Iwo Jima in WWII
August 15, 2017
Medieval Armor, From Quilted Cloth to Full Steel Plate
August 15, 2017
Top American Civil War Sites To Visit Today
August 15, 2017
Rome’s Greatest Enemies – Five People Who Fought Back Against the Empire
August 15, 2017
Jack Lucas: He Fought the US Marines to Get at the Japanese
August 14, 2017
The Persian Thermopylae: When Alexander The Great Nearly Lost His Empire In Battle
August 14, 2017
Audie Leon Murphy: World War Two Hero, Medal of Honor Recipient, and Mega-Star
August 14, 2017
The Human Bomb – The American Airman Who Jumped From Stricken B-17 Without A Parachute… And Survived
August 14, 2017
What I was asked to do – Marine Corps veteran served in aviation ordnance during World War II
August 14, 2017
Twelve Days Of Hard Fighting – The Australians Defeat The Japanese At Milne Bay In World War Two
August 14, 2017
Deep Cover: The Spy Who Brought Down An Empire in the Run-Up to World War One
August 14, 2017
This Heroic US Coastguard Signalman Sacrificed Himself To Save 500 Of His Fellows At Guadalcanal
August 14, 2017
100 Years On: Passchendaele in Color – Amazing Colorized Photos by Tom Marshall
August 13, 2017
Operation Overlord: The Greatest Amphibious Landing in History – Part 2
August 13, 2017
The Mongol Invasions of Japan and the Origin of the Word “Kamikaze”
August 13, 2017
When One Man Attacked The USA With His Militia at His Back – Pancho Villa
August 13, 2017
In Several Occasions, Hitler Refused to Face the Reality of his Military Situation
August 13, 2017
Iowa Class Battlecruisers – We Ask If America’s Most Powerful Dreadnoughts May Actually Have Been Battlecruisers
August 13, 2017
The Channel Dash – A Fast-Moving Naval Battle Of WWII
August 13, 2017
When A British Destroyer Rammed a German Cruiser In World War Two
August 13, 2017
Gurkha Lachhiman Gurung, Who Single-Handedly Fought Off At Least 30 Japanese Soldiers
August 13, 2017
Transportation equipment reactivated or repurposed for the World War II Homefront
August 13, 2017
When Allies Clashed in the Second World War
August 12, 2017
Three Ways Germany Weaponized Rockets in World War Two
August 12, 2017
Mary Edwards Walker: The Only Woman Ever to Be Awarded the Medal of Honor
August 12, 2017
“Hell Roaring Mike”: A Highly Respected American Commander At Sea
August 12, 2017
Alvin Cullum York: the Most Decorated Pacifist of the First World War
August 12, 2017
Building ‘Camp Swampy’ – Missouri military experience helped inspire iconic Beetle Bailey® comic strip
August 12, 2017
Echo of Infamy – The Little Known Second Attack on Pearl Harbor, March 4, 1942
August 12, 2017
Vinegar Joe Stilwell – a tough, brilliant, but difficult commander in World War Two
August 12, 2017
Sergeant First Class Robert Howard: Refused Two Medals of Honor
August 11, 2017
How the Allies Smashed the Nazi German Military Industry
August 11, 2017
Operation Thursday: Orde Wingate, Building Fortresses Behind Enemy Lines in WWII
August 11, 2017
Abdol Hussein Sardari – the Iranian Schindler – Saved Many Lives in WW2
August 11, 2017
The First Yale Unit: College Students Form a Flying Squadron in 1916
August 11, 2017
Some of the Best Catchphrases Of The Ancient Spartans
August 11, 2017
WWII 1944: The Assault on Myitkyina was a Failure of Leadership
August 11, 2017
John D. Bulkeley’s Daring Evacuation of General Douglas Macarthur on a 77′ PT Boat
August 10, 2017
Gino Merli: A Scrappy Kid from Scranton who was awarded the Medal of Honor
August 10, 2017
The Nuremberg Trials in 1945: The War Crimes Of The Wehrmacht
August 10, 2017
The Battle of Menin Road, 1917 – The third Ypres – A gargantuan effort in WW1
August 10, 2017
The bloody reputation of Passchendaele Ridge – Hell on Earth during the First World War
August 10, 2017
The Battle of the Ourcq – The Americans make their presence felt at the Marne
August 10, 2017
Amiens: the beginning of the Hundred Days Offensive – The Allies brought enormous resources to bear
August 10, 2017
Allied Attacks on Japanese “Hell Ships” Unintentionally Killed Thousands of POWs in WWII
August 10, 2017
“Dusting off memories” – Veteran shares story of service in Merchant Marines and U.S. Air Force
August 10, 2017
Operation Overlord: The Greatest Amphibious Landing in History – Part 1
August 09, 2017
Orde Wingate: The Most Controversial British Commander of WWII
August 09, 2017
Operation Cobra, 1944: Breaking Out of Normandy
August 09, 2017
The Awesome B-54 Ultrafortress, Boeing’s Best Piston Prop Bomber That Failed To Ever Fly
August 09, 2017
WWI in East Africa, and the Legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
August 09, 2017
Operation Longcloth: The Burma Campaign of WWII – “The greatest guerrilla operation ever undertaken”
August 09, 2017
James H. Howard: The Only Fighter Pilot over Europe Awarded The Medal of Honor
August 09, 2017
The Tragedy of the SS Cap Arcona – WWII’s Titanic
August 09, 2017
The Battle of Austerlitz – Napoleon’s Greatest Success
August 08, 2017
Purposely Going Down with His Ship, This WW2 Captain Was Awarded MoH And Saved Countless Lives
August 08, 2017
Joachim Peiper’s Atrocities Against Allied Troops: When Intimidation Failed
August 08, 2017
To Find A Lost WWII Buddy, Gene “Star Trek” Roddenberry Named A Villain After Him
August 08, 2017
“The M.S. Wilhelm Gustloff” – Book Review by Mark Barnes
August 08, 2017
The Story Behind “In Flanders Fields” – One Of The Most Famous War Poems Of History
August 08, 2017
The WW2 Battle Of North Cape, And The Utter Destruction Of The German Battleship Scharnhorst
August 08, 2017
The Incredible Story Of The Only American To Fight For Both The U.S. And Russia In WWII
August 08, 2017
The End of an Era – The Sack of Rome
August 08, 2017
Exaggeration And Angels – The Battle of Mons, 1914
August 08, 2017