“Lucky” Luciano and Operation Underworld: By 1942, Charles “Lucky” Luciano had been behind bars more than six years. Prison was far from the high society life he had enjoyed as the head of organized crime. In New […]
The 6888th delivers: On February 14th , 1945, the troopship SS Ile de France arrived in Glasgow carrying the first contingent of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only black Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit to be […]
MacArthur’s escape from the Philippines: At 7:45 PM on March 11, 1942, a small torpedo boat, PT-41 departed from Corregidor. Under the cover of darkness, it rendezvoused with three other PT boats then carefully sailed through a minefield while heading south […]
Yosselle Greenstein, The Mighty Atom: In New York in 1939, members of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund were enraged to see a five-foot four, 140 pound man tearing up the sign on their headquarters which read “No […]
Louisiana Maneuvers, Mistakes to be Made: Written by Jonathan Abbott In two years Nazi Germany had occupied Poland, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg, France and Belgium, Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Greece. The Axis Powers were pushing […]
100TH DIVISION SERGEANT GETS EMERGENCY FURLOUGH TO PACIFY AN APE
ALASKA AND THE ALEUTIANS SWEAT OUT THE WAR IN THE NORTH PACIFIC
FIT FOR COMBAT, UNFIT FOR INSURANCE – LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ALL I GOT I EARNT – A PAYROL CLERK DEMANDS A PROMOTION
“SAFE HAND” DELIVERY – A LOST WEDDING RING TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD
ROD SERLING, FROM WWII PARATROOPER TO THE TWILIGHT ZONE
The Memphis Belle: The Dramatic, Fictionalized 1990 Film
WHEN YOU MEET THE RUSSIANS – US ARMY GUIDE TO SOVIET UNIFORMS AND RANK
Ex-Prisoner of War Honored with Medal for Escaping Nazi Camp
CAFFEIN FIENDS – SOLDIERS OF THE 5TH INFANTRY DIVISION COMPLAIN ABOUT CHANGES TO ARMY K RATIONS
