“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 […]
COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SECOND BATTLE OF BOUGAINVILLE
THEY KNOW ALL ABOUT THE ZERO — THEY MADE ONE
PENICILLIN NO CURE-ALL REPORTS THE WAR DEPARTMENT
RUSSIAN NAVY IS SHELLING FOE ON THE ESTONIAN COAST
WWII RESEARCHER HOPES TO FIND MISSING USMC FIGHTER PILOT
DANISH JIVE – LEO MATHISEN PLAYS JAZZ HITS UNDER THE NAZI’S NOSES
HEARTBROKEN GI’s – HERE’S HOW TO START A BRUSH-OFF CLUB BRANCH
JOSEPH KENNEDY JR.’S TOP SECRET MISSION IN OPERATION ANVIL
HE TRIED TO SELL PINEAPPLES, BUT THE GIs IN FIJI WOULDN’T BUY
American Commander in Bastogne to German Commander: Nuts
