Capt. Nancy Wake of Britain’s Special Operations Executive was a remarkable woman. The wife of a wealthy French industrialist, she …

On Dec. 6, 1946, President Harry S Truman pinned seven medals on the chest of Army Sgt. Llewellyn M. “Al” …

“The biggest and hardest job since the Panama Canal.”

                                —Maj. Robert W. Madden, describing construction of the Alcan Highway

On …

There were never very many Tiger tanks, less than 1,400 total. They were huge (German crews scornfully called them “furniture …

When the Pearl Harbor attack was over, amid the preparations for war, an accounting of the cost began. The losses …

The January 1943 Red Army victory over the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad in the south was matched that same …

By the end of 1942, the Japanese Navy had shot its bolt at Guadalcanal. Unable to even get sufficient supplies …

As the calendar turns from 2012 to 2013, we here at Defense Media Network take a look back at our …

In his study of American generals from World War II on, The Generals: American Military Command from World War II …

Operation KE was the Jan. 14-Feb. 7, 1943 withdrawal of 10,600 defeated, starving Japanese soldiers of the battered 17th Army …