The Battle of Attu in May of 1943 was the only land battle of World War II fought on incorporated U.S. territory. It was the second deadliest battle in the Pacific Theater, after Iwo Jima, due largely to a failed last-ditch banzai charge.
This video is adapted from the article “Aleutian Battleground” in the January 2019 print issue of Military History.
Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.
During the 1835–42 Second Seminole War and as Army scouts out West, these warriors from the South proved formidable.
If you needed some motivation during the war years, there was probably a poster for that.
