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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...
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World War II Magazine
Among U.S. Navy Admiral Bill "Bull" Halsey's Third Fleet, two captains struggle to control their ships whilst in the eye of a whiplashing storm...
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Military History Book Reviews
Having the best army does not necessarily equate to victory, observes author Kenneth Macksey...
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MHQ Magazine
Our lexicographer considers terms arising during World War II, and in the postwar era. A number of linguistic oddities arose during World War II, and perhaps surprisingly, some of them have survived. One of them is gizmo, for a mechanical...
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MHQ Magazine
The two-year quest to pin down his identity took passion, perseverance, and a bit of luck. Who was the greatest spy of World War II? By that, I don’t mean the most colorful the most James Bondlike, the most romantic, or the most skilled...
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MHQ Magazine
The battle for San Pietro Infine was a microcosm of the Italian campaign—a brutal uphill struggle with horrendous casualties that ended only after the Germans melted away to the next hillside village. Since its founding in the eleventh...
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HistoryNet Video
Griffin Johnsen, the Armchair Historian, explains the context and combat involved in the month-long struggle for the island of Iwo Jima in February of 1945, in honor of the 74th anniversary of the commencement of Operation Detachment....
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HistoryNet Video
In honor of the 74th anniversary of the beginning of Operation Detachment, our partners at Military Times present a video commemorating the momentous Marine victory on Iwo Jima. Footage courtesy of the National Archvies and DVIDS....
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Military History Magazine
In February 1944 the U.S. Navy turned Japan’s ‘Gibraltar of the Pacific’ into a maritime morgue...
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World War II Magazine
The ship was saved. But its 75-foot stern sank in the pitch-black, fog-shrouded waters off the Aleutians, lost along with 70 men. Nearly 75 years later, scientists from the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of...
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World War II Magazine
The Academy Award-winning film downplays key historic details in the breaking of Germany’s Enigma code, yet still packs a powerful punch....
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Military History Magazine
In 1943, driven by a brutal code and blind loyalty to the emperor, the crew of an ill-fated Japanese destroyer committed a horrific massacre...
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World War II Magazine
When the navy ordered me to Guam last winter, I was less than enthusiastic about the prospect. It certainly didn’t help that an officer I worked with who had spent some time in Guam in the 1960s referred to the North Pacific island—the...
