“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 […]
ESCAPE TUNNEL USED BY JEWISH PRISONERS FOUND IN LITHUANIA
NEW GEORGIA ONE YEAR LATER – GIs FIND NEW USES FOR OLD JAPANESE MACHINES ON THESE PEACEFUL ISLANDS, ONCE BATTLE SITES
What Do We Think Of The British Soldiers From The Eighth Army?
LABOR AND VETS – GI WRITES ABOUT HIS POSITION ON LABOR STRIKES
M1 Garand Rifle, A Soldier’s Best Friend
Po Valley, the Final Campaign in Italy
MARIYA DOLINA A REAL HEROINE OF THE SOVIET UNION
PATRIOT JOINS YANKS AS SCOUT IN CHERBOURG, AND IT WAS GOOD DAY FOR BOTH
YANKS TAKE BAGUIO HILLS; DRIVE ON DAVAO CONTINUES – FIGHTING ON LUZON AND SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES
OTTO SKORZENY – OPERATION GREIF AND THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
