Vietnam War
How North Vietnam Claimed More Aces Than It Really Had
North Vietnam racked up fewer aerial victories than it claimed
Vietnam War
They Shot the War
An alternative newspaper for American GIs in Vietnam offered some raw glimpses into the conflict
World War II
The Incredible Six-Man Patrol Who Captured 32 POWs in a Single Day
It was 1944, and members of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, were bold enough to take on a seemingly impossible mission.
WWII Battles
Book Review: Airborne in 1943
Kevin Wilson relates that year's grueling night campaigns waged by the Royal Air Force Bomber Command over Europe
Civil Rights
Belle Da Costa Greene: Passing Fancy
A black activist's daughter reinvented herself on the other side of the color line
Figures/Biographies
Bill Veeck, the P. T. Barnum of Baseball
Gleeful self-promoter pulled off more stunts than he could shake his wooden leg at
WWII Battles
Book Review: American Knights
Tory Failmezger recounts the World War II tank-busting campaigns of the U.S. 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion
Vietnam War Figures
The South Vietnam Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His Family
As his country crumbled, a South Vietnamese pilot attempting a high-risk landing on the Midway depended on the ship’s quick-thinking crew to save his family from disaster
World War I
From Ambulance Driver to Fighter Pilot
In 1914, as World War I erupted across Europe, James “Mac” McConnell knew he could no longer stay on the sidelines
WWII Figures
War Story: A GI recalls his D-Day Experience at Omaha Beach
In an essay written soon after the war, a GI recalls his D+1 at Omaha Beach and after
WWII Figures
‘This Is What Hell Is Like’: 74 Years Ago, My Grandfather-in-Law Liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp
It was April 29, 1945, a cold, damp day when a 19-year-old private and his fellow soldiers got orders to liberate a Nazi concentration camp called Dachau.
2000s
Book Review: Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss discusses nine U.S. presidents who have guided the nation through or kept it out of war
Military History Features
The Wages of War
In 1965 Rhodesia’s white-minority government went rogue, sparking a war whose reverberations have left a nation in anguish
WWII Figures
Daniel Guiet: A Father’s Secret War
Daniel Guiet relates the clandestine wartime service of his father, OSS and SOE operator Jean-Claude Guiet
WWII Battles
Horsa and Waco Gliders
Britain and the United States developed the Airspeed Horsa and Waco CG-4A gliders, respectively
