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Aviation History Magazine
After 70 years, the bold British raid on Germany’s strategic river dams remains one of history’s most audacious bombing missions—a testament to ingenious engineering and the bravery of RAF aircrews....
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World War II Magazine
Four Doolittle Raiders recall the mission that rocked Japan. The first bombs, four 500-pound incendiary clusters, began tumbling down to Tokyo on Saturday, April 18, 1942, at precisely 12:20 p.m. While little is known of Sergeant Fred A....
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
On March 27, in the wake of a declared national emergency due to COVID-19, President Donald Trump enacted the Korean War-era Defense Production Act of 1950, noting that “personal protective equipment and ventilators, meet the criteria...
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Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Reviews, World War II Reviews
A letter from the Russian Prime Minister, who was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg); his mother was a factory worker during the siege....
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Military History Magazine
Volunteering to serve the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, Alun Menai Williams said, ‘I witnessed most of the carnage from a height of six to 12 inches from ground level.’ It made him a criminal in the eyes of his own...
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Military History Magazine
The city of St. Lô was the U.S. Army’s key to breaking out of Normandy into the French hinterland. On the morning of July 11, 1944, the 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, advanced toward Martinville Ridge, two miles east of St....
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Military History Magazine
James Stewart (1908-97) was one of the most popular and respected film actors of the 20th century, appearing in 91 films over five decades, from the mid- 1930s to the mid-1980s. Yet for all his fame and popularity there was another side to...
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Military History Magazine
German submariner Peter Petersen survived three patrols aboard U-518. He missed the fourth—during which it was lost with all hands. The tide of war turned in the Atlantic Ocean during the summer of 1943. For three years, Germany’s ping...
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Military History Magazine
Edward Shames parachuted into Normandy and the Netherlands, joining the ‘Band of Brothers’ in Bastogne. On December 16, 1944, German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt’s forces launched a surprise counter- offensive in the Ardennes...
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Military History Magazine
More than 60 years have passed since the end of World War II, and only now is some once-secret information from that conflict coming to light. It is not often that revelations from another time can change the way historians review the...
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Military History Magazine
Few families have exerted as much impact on black American history as Benjamin O. Davis and his son, Benjamin Jr. Their lives and careers were strikingly parallel. Both father and son fought a ceaseless, uncompromising battle for equality...
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Military History Magazine
To his admirers, Field Marshal Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel had shown a flash of his old form in Tunisia. Recovering from a 1,500-mile retreat from El Alamein in November 1942, he unleashed his Afrika Korps on the newly arrived U.S. Army in...
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Military History Magazine
As any historian knows, there are many dubious assertions in mainstream historical and foreign policy discourse. Few, however, are as dubious yet accepted as the conceit that appeasement caused or helped cause World War II. This moldy...
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Military History Magazine
Call of Duty 2 and Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood Call of Duty 2 ($50, requires Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, 1.4Ghz processor, 256MB RAM, 8X CD drive, 4GB hard drive space, 64MB 3D video card, Activision, www.activision.com) and Brothers...
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Military History Magazine
Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross by Albrecht Wacker, Pen and Sword Books, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, 2006, $34.95. The Eastern Front during World War II was a great morass into...
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Military History Magazine
Patton: A Biography by Alan Axelrod, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2006, $21.95. None too surprisingly, when Palgrave Macmillan launched a “Great Generals Series” of short biographies, number one on its list of subjects was...
