11/24/2022
U.S. Army Sgt. Frank Shiborski, a 50 cal. machine gunner from Detroit, Michigan, enjoying a drumstick on Nov. 22, 1944.
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11/24/2022
"Turkey & Trimmings" 9th Italy Combat Camera Unit, November 1944
Happy Turkey Day!
Motion Picture Films from the "Combat Subjects" Program Series, ca. 1939 - ca. 1945Creator: War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947) (Most...
11/24/2022
This 13-Year-Old Schoolgirl Helped Win the Battle of Britain | HistoryNet
The Luftwaffe met their match with British teen, Hazel Hill.
The Luftwaffe met their match with the teenage Hazel Hill
11/24/2022
Famed 'Wait for Me, Daddy' Photograph Has a Complicated History
Canada’s most famed photograph from the Second World War has a "somewhat" happy ending.
Canada’s most famed photograph from the Second World War has a somewhat happy ending.
11/23/2022
How the Buffalo Soldiers Helped Break Through the Gothic Line in World War II
The African American 92nd Infantry Division took on formidable German opposition in its push up the Italian boot.
11/23/2022
When America Needed Heroes: ""Shorty" Wheless and "Buzz" Wagner
'Shorty' Wheless and 'Buzz' Wagner typified the kind of air warriors the American public was eager to recognize early on during World War II.
11/23/2022
New Study Looks at a Grim Mission: Bringing WWII's Dead Back Home
“For many families, the war did not end in 1945,” author Kim Clarke says.
More than 171,000 dead Americans were returned home after the fighting, but it's "a largely unknown chapter of the war."
11/23/2022
Audie Murphy: One-Man Stand at Holtzwihr
Audie Murphy earned the Medal of Honor and lasting fame during a fierce engagement near Colmar, France, and ended the war as America's most decorated soldier.
11/23/2022
A Navy Blimp Took Off on a Routine Patrol Off the Coast. Its Crew Would Never Be Seen Again.
One morning in August 1942, L-8 lifted off from Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay on a routine patrol. It would touch down hours later — empty.
11/23/2022
No One Ate These D-Day Rations. They Survive Today as a Testament to British Cuisine.
A D-Day “Assault Ration Pack” believed to be the last of its kind was recently discovered in Dorset, England – featuring tea and biscuits.
11/22/2022
Against All Odds: U.S. Troops Fight at Elsenborn Ridge
The heroic American stand at the towns of Krinkelt and Rocherath slowed the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge.
11/22/2022
The N**i Who Saved Paris from Destruction During World War II
Adolf Hi**er had decreed that Paris should be left a smoking ruin, but Dietrich von Choltitz thought better of his Fuhrer's order.
11/22/2022
Double Agent's D-Day Victory
A double agent code-named 'Garbo' led Adolf Hi**er to believe that the Normandy invasion was just a diversion.
11/22/2022
D-Day Plus $: Does the Commercialization of Normandy Disrespect the Legacy of the Landings?
“What’s next, dirt biking at Auschwitz?”
11/22/2022
How A WWII Banana Shortage Changed The Course of Tw***ie History
Is there anything sweeter — literally or figuratively — than biting into the plastic-wrapped chemical compound of luxuriously spongey cake with vanilla
11/21/2022
Battle of Cape Matapan: World War II Italian Naval Massacre
During the March 28, 1941, Battle of Cape Matapan, British Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham decided once and for all who would be master of the Mediterranean.
11/21/2022
Memphis Belle: 25 Trips to Hell and Back
In the flak-filled sky over a German U-boat installation in occupied France on January 23, 1943, Memphis Belle was battling for her life.
In the flak-filled sky over a German U-boat installation in occupied France on January 23, 1943, Memphis Belle was battling for her life. The U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-17F,
11/21/2022
German Submarine U-505 Crewmember Hans Goebeler Recalls Being Captured During World War II
A German submarine became the first enemy vessel captured on the high seas by the U.S. Navy since the War of 1812. Hans Goebeler survived the ordeal aboard the U-boat.
11/21/2022
Finland's Whirlwind Fighter Plane: A One-Off Messerschmitt Clone
Finland’s best fighter was too late to fight, but a handful of dedicated workers saved it for posterity.
11/21/2022
When Mel Brooks Learned Not to 'Shortcut' the Jam
In his own words, the Hollywood legend recounts the funny and not-so-funny sides of serving as a U.S. Army combat engineer in World War II.
The legendary funnyman recounts the funny and not-so-funny sides of his U.S. Army service during World War II.
11/20/2022
10 Weapons Fails Whose Flaws You Won't Believe Got Past Their Designers
From exploding bats and dogs to the Great Panjandrum — a rotating wheel of TNT — here’s our rundown of some of combat’s kookiest weapons.
11/20/2022
General George S. Patton's Race to Capture Messina
When plans for the Allied conquest of Sicily called for the British army to capture the key port of Messina, Patton decided he would get there first.
11/20/2022
The Many Times Rommel Escaped Death or Capture During World War II
Erwin Rommel’s hands-on approach to military leadership in World War II brought him into constant brushes with danger and death.
11/20/2022
How Allied Air Attacks Evolved During World War II
In October 1943, the U.S. Eighth Air Force's losses became critical, forcing a reappraisal of the American daylight bombing strategy.
11/20/2022
Karl Wolff: Peacemaker, Mass Murderer, or Both?
The SS general was keen to end the war in Europe. But did he ever truly understand and acknowledge his complicity in the Third Reich?
11/19/2022
Brewster Buffalo: The Plane That Knocked the Soviets on Their Heels
This unloved American plane proved itself in Finnish pilots' hands as it beat back the Soviets in World War II.
11/19/2022
Air War Over Iraq: 1941
In May 1941, British forces were fighting to keep Iraq in Allied hands — a struggle that belatedly involved German and Italian aircraft as well.
In May 1941, British forces were fighting to keep Iraq in Allied hands -- a struggle that belatedly involved German and Italian aircraft as well.
11/19/2022
Battle of Bougainville: 37th Infantry Division's Battle for Hill 700
Losing Hill 700 to the Japanese meant defeat for the American forces on Bougainville. To the men of the 37th Infantry Division, that was unthinkable.
11/19/2022
How the Brazilians Waxed the Germans With the Flying 'Jug'
The P-47’s power plant could take a lot of punishment, while its eight wing-mounted .50-caliber machine guns could dish it out.
Brazil fought in WWII?!
11/19/2022
How the Niihau Incident May Have Influenced Japanese American Internment
Japanese pilots flying es**rt during the Pearl Harbor attack had been told that crippled aircraft should try to make emergency landings on tiny Niihau, which they thought was uninhabited. In fact, a small, very isolated community of native Hawaiians and Japanese Americans lived there — and one had spotted a desperate pilot trying to land.
Conflicted allegiances leading to a deadly confrontation on Niihau may have had far-reaching repercussions for Japanese Americans during World War II.
11/18/2022
Marine Sergeant Al Schmid Recalls the Bloody Fighting on Guadalcanal
Marine Sergeant Al Schmid lost an eye while heroically manning a machine gun during the protracted fighting on Guadalcanal.
Marine Sergeant Al Schmid lost an eye while heroically manning a machine gun during the protracted fighting on Guadalcanal
11/18/2022
How Hi**er's Top N**i Commander Werner von Blomberg Was Disgraced in a S*x Scandal
The unusual marriage of high-ranking N**i official Werner von Blomberg possibly changed the course of the German army in World War II.
11/18/2022
Yokosuka E14Y Floatplane: Japan's Foldable Submarine Scout
This was the only enemy airplane to bomb the American mainland during World War II.
11/18/2022
'Cats in the Navy': Book Explores the Secret Life of Sea Cats
Aside from ruling their owners’ homes (and the Internet), cats have also turned out to be rulers of the waves.
11/18/2022
Was World War II Ace 'Butch' O'Hare Killed by Friendly Fire?
The Navy's first ace of World War II disappeared mysteriously one night during the Tarawa campaign.
11/17/2022
Life Inside a Japanese Prison Camp, in the Words of an American POW
Captured in the Philippines, Hector Polla survived the Bataan Death March to document the daily indignities of Cabanatuan.
11/17/2022
How Hi**er's Top N**i Commander Werner von Blomberg Was Disgraced in a S*x Scandal
The unusual marriage of high-ranking N**i official Werner von Blomberg possibly changed the course of the German army in World War II.
11/16/2022
N**is Showed Up at a Polish Independence Day March in Warsaw
Warsaw police arrested the anti-fascist protesters instead.
11/16/2022
Famed 'Wait for Me, Daddy' Photograph Has a Complicated History
Canada’s most famed photograph from the Second World War has a "somewhat" happy ending.
Canada’s most famed photograph from the Second World War has a somewhat happy ending.
11/16/2022
A Navy Blimp Took Off on a Routine Patrol Off the Coast. Its Crew Would Never Be Seen Again.
One morning in August 1942, L-8 lifted off from Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay on a routine patrol. It would touch down hours later — empty.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Frank Shiborski, a 50 cal. machine gunner from Detroit, Michigan, enjoying a drumstick on Nov. 22, 1944.
Happy Turkey Day!
The Luftwaffe met their match with British teen, Hazel Hill.
Canada’s most famed photograph from the Second World War has a "somewhat" happy ending.
The African American 92nd Infantry Division took on formidable German opposition in its push up the Italian boot.
'Shorty' Wheless and 'Buzz' Wagner typified the kind of air warriors the American public was eager to recognize early on during World War II.
“For many families, the war did not end in 1945,” author Kim Clarke says.
Audie Murphy earned the Medal of Honor and lasting fame during a fierce engagement near Colmar, France, and ended the war as America's most decorated soldier.
One morning in August 1942, L-8 lifted off from Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay on a routine patrol. It would touch down hours later — empty.
A D-Day “Assault Ration Pack” believed to be the last of its kind was recently discovered in Dorset, England – featuring tea and biscuits.
The heroic American stand at the towns of Krinkelt and Rocherath slowed the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge.
Adolf Hi**er had decreed that Paris should be left a smoking ruin, but Dietrich von Choltitz thought better of his Fuhrer's order.
A double agent code-named 'Garbo' led Adolf Hi**er to believe that the Normandy invasion was just a diversion.
“What’s next, dirt biking at Auschwitz?”
Is there anything sweeter — literally or figuratively — than biting into the plastic-wrapped chemical compound of luxuriously spongey cake with vanilla
During the March 28, 1941, Battle of Cape Matapan, British Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham decided once and for all who would be master of the Mediterranean.