On March 6, 1943, the New York Times reported that 11-year-old Anita Hochberg of Sea Cliff, Long Island, had donated …

The American debacle at the Battle of Kasserine Pass had brought the simmering command crisis of II Corps to a …

More than arrows, swords, bullets, or bombs, disease has been the biggest killer of soldiers until quite recently. Malaria was …

“We knew the German jets were faster than we were. Instead of going directly after them, we went away from …

Long the butt of ignorant jokes, the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) of World War II had capable professional officers, …

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

So was it a brilliant mistake or was it just a mistake?

The Blohm und Voss P.170 fighter-bomber of 1942 …

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

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

On …

The P-66 Vanguard looked right. It looked like exactly the kind of World War II fighter that might have won …

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