“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 […]
ONE DAY IN FOUR IN NORMANDY IS NICE, BUT IT’S ALWAYS DAMP BY ERNIE PYLE
Purple Heart Awarded to WWII Veteran 70 Years later
HUMAN TORPEDO ATTACK! THE JAPANESE NAVY’S KAITEN SUICIDE TORPEDO PROGRAM
ALLIES SMASH BACK MORE CAEN ASSAULTS – EXTEND ARE ABOUT TOWN IN SOUTHWEST – Nazi Report New Landing, Surge Inland by Troops Northwest of Caen
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JIMMY STEWART IS NAMED B24 WING CHIEF OF STAFF
THE LAST DAYS AT GUADALCANAL – SKETCHES BY HOWARD BRODIE
WHO WAS THAT CAPTURED JAPANESE PILOT I MET IN 1942?
AWOL…WILLIAM M. KLIEN – TOP TURRET GUNNER 384TH BOMB GROUP
Watch the Wisecracks Soldier; Those WACs Are MPs
WATCH YOUR STEP, GENTS, WACs ARE OUT GUNNING
