“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 […]
SICK CALL – THE CURE FOR GI GOLDBRICKERS
Battle of La Haye du Puits, Normandy, France – from YANK Magazine
Fred Rochlin, B-24 navigator who became a master storyteller
Marine Comes Home From Tarawa Over 70 Years Later
TREASURE HUNTING IN JAPANESE CAVES ON ZAMBOANGA, MINDANAO
HUMAN REMAINS FOUND NEAR OLD NAZI RESEARCH SITE
WITH THE CANADIAN FORCES IN FRANCE – YANK MAGAZINE
BOBRUISK FALLS, REDS DRIVE ON FOR MINSK – PUSH COSTS FOE 20,000 MEN A DAY -110-Mi. Thrust in 6-days Takes Russians Third of Way to Reich
A GREAT DANE NAMED RALPH – THE DOG WHO CAME TO DINNER
NOTHING CAN STOP THE….COMICAL STORY OF ARMY AIR FORCE CENSORSHIP
