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World War II Magazine
As parents and siblings shipped out to war, American children shipped out to the playground. On the Saturday morning following the attack on Pearl Harbor, an Iowa housewife took her egg money to Toyland to purchase two Tom Thumb tanks....
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World War II Magazine
Dozens of kind strangers relay an American POW’s reassuring words. In late November 1944, Private First Class Richard E. Kells and his unit were pulled off the front lines near the French town of Niederbronn-les-Bains, just shy of the...
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World War II Magazine
Wars have always offered opportunities for extraordinary adventure—and extraordinary tall tales. Jasper Maskelyne had his share of each, mostly the latter. A well-known magician on the London stage in the years before the war, Maskelyne...
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World War II Magazine
On February 27, 1942, Brigadier General Ralph McTyeire Pennell, the commander of the 27th Infantry Division at Fort Ord, California, replied to a letter written by a U.S. Congressman, Clinton P. Anderson, who questioned the rationale...
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World War II Magazine
Sub Spotter Thanks for the story on Red Ramage and the USS Parche. The sub’s bridge structure is at the submarine base in Pearl Harbor, at the street corner of Nimitz and Pierce. A plaque details Commander Ramage’s Medal of Honor...
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World War II Magazine
Churchill’s friend and scientific adviser had the prime minister’s full faith— even when he shouldn’t have. ‘Love me, love my dog, and if you don’t love my dog you damn well can’t love me,” muttered an angry Winston...
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World War II Magazine
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes (1986) “By far the most complete history of the Manhattan Project, this is also a profound exploration of the sprawling interconnections between war, science, and society in the modern world....
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World War II Magazine
Dutch Resistance Fighter Confesses to 65-Year-Old Murder—and Learns She Killed an Innocent Man She had carried the secret for 65 years but did not want to take it to her death. So 96-year-old Atie Ridder-Visser, a hero of the Dutch...
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World War II Magazine
WWII veteran Albert J. Schmidt of Washington D.C. pursued an education, but answered when the call of war and his country beckoned his help...
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MHQ Magazine
A witness to the carnage of a Crimean War battle founds the Red Cross. Sometime during the sweltering day of June 24, 1859, Jean Henri Dunant inadvertently stumbled into the crevasse of horror created by one of the great battles of the...
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Vietnam Magazine
Was it mutiny, or did common sense prevail at Fire Support Base? In early March 1971, a Harris Poll found a majority of Americans believed the war in Vietnam to be “morally wrong.” Later that month an Americal Division armored...
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Vietnam Magazine
We Were Lob Bombed Too Following up on General Stanley Cherrie’s article (December,“Case of the Mysterious Lob Bomb”), I was a first lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines, headquartered on Hill 55 southwest of Da Nang in the...
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Vietnam Magazine
Two Red Cross volunteers discovered a whole new meaning of Thanksgiving in the jungle of Vietnam. Joann Puffer had a year of teaching and a year as an American Red Cross Donut Dolly in Korea under her belt when she volunteered to go to...
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Vietnam Magazine
“I’m a photojournalist, or whatever you want to call me. But I don’t belong to the world of art.” So writes Don McCullin in Shaped by War, a chronicle of his four decades of war photography. McCullin was born in London in 1935, and...
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World War II Magazine
FDR was determined to keep the U.S. out of war, but in just a few short minutes General George C. Marshall changed his mind and history...
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Vietnam Magazine
The saga of Kim Phuc will forever be a clarion to the consequences of war and the resilience of the human spirit. Forty years ago, a 9-year-old girl severely burned by napalm ran screaming down a highway in Vietnam, her clothes torn off to...
