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MHQ Magazine
Time at War Nicholas Mosley, (Weidenfield and Nicolson, 2006), 185 pages, $29.50. Nick Mosley is an unusual Englishman, and he fought an especially English war in Italy, 1943-45. His father was Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British...
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MHQ Magazine
The tactics that brought victory to British armored forces in North Africa in the fall of 1940 were inspired by the bold flanking maneuvers carried out by Sir Edmund Allenby’s cavalry during World War I. A lopsided pincers movement...
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MHQ Magazine
In 1943 some Italian prisoners of war on Scotland’s Orkney Islands decided to convert a pair of steel huts into their own place of worship....
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American History Magazine
He smoked four packs a day, drank a case of beer a day, read a book a day. He hobbled on a wooden leg—the result of a World War II wound—but loved to dance exuberantly. He refused to wear ties and preferred a cheap seat in the...
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Aviation History
When the French Resistance needed help, a squadron of ex–sub hunters became the air arm of the OSS. In May 1944, not long after their arrival in England, B-24 Liberator pilot Captain George Johnson and crews of the 788th Bombardment...
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Military History, MH Interviews
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942...
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World War II Magazine
A conversation with Dick Cole who copiloted the lead B-25 with Doolittle in the famous 1942 raid......
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MHQ Magazine
In 1944 a 30-year-old tank commander from a well-known Kentucky whiskey family made a name for himself at the Battle of Leyte...
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Aviation History Magazine
The Curtiss C-46 filled a niche during World War II for a high-altitude heavy hauler capable of operating from rough airstrips in far-flung locales They called it the Curtiss Calamity, Ol’ Dumbo, the Flying Whale and, more recently, Miss...
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Aviation History Magazine
The interesting question today is not whether the Mustang was fast, but why...
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World War II Magazine
Allied bombing raids didn’t just devastate the cities of Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. They damaged the heavens, too, new research shows. Shock waves from the war’s big bombs reached 150 miles above the Earth’s surface, causing...
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MHQ Magazine
When the German army crashed through American lines in the Ardennes, General George S. Patton saw only opportunity....
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Military History Magazine
The Germans virtually destroyed the Soviet Fifth Tank Army, primarily using a lone panzer division and despite a local Soviet numerical superiority...
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Military History Magazine
In 1941 Japanese invaders conquered Hong Kong in just 17 days—four years of suffering followed for Canadian defenders...
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Military History Book Reviews
As Gordon Corera relates, in 1941 British intelligence began dropping homing pigeons across Nazi-occupied Europe, hoping for a miracle...
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Aviation History Magazine
A close examination of the historical record reveals that ground-attack aircraft in World War II were not as successful against armor as many believe. The effectiveness of anti-tank aircraft in World War II is taken for granted by...
