“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 […]
U.S. TO PAY STORK’S BILL FOR 500,000 WIVES OF GIs
Mystery solved! The Greek “kamikaze” who rammed an Italian CANT Z.1007 bomber
COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SECOND BATTLE OF BOUGAINVILLE
THREE SUNDAYS – FROM DIARY OF A SOLDIER FIGHTING IN FRANCE
An Auschwitz Forbidden Romance Story
Live WWII Hand Grenade Found at Home in Berkeley, California
SHREWD YANKEE TRADER LOOKS FOR WHISKY IN LONDON
Ernie Pyle Comes Home From the Wars-From Stars and Stripes
83rd INFANTRY DIVISION RADIOS TO RUSSIANS EAST OF THE ELBE
OFFICERS PLEASE NOTE – GENERAL MONTGOMERY SPEAKS TO MEN OF THE EIGHTH ARMY
