Lost Opportunity: Operation Barbarossa and the Decision Not to Kill Josef Stalin
“Everything which Lenin created we have lost forever!”
– Josef Stalin after receiving news of Operation Barbarossa
At 3 o’clock …
World War II
A Matter of Priorities: American Production in World War II, Part 1
“It would be unwise to assume we can defeat Germany simply by outproducing her. . . . Wars are won …
Coup d’État in Iraq
“This stroke would be more deadly to the British Empire than the capture of London!”
—Grand Adm. Erich Raeder to …
The Nazi Looting of Art in Europe
When it comes to looting conquered nations, no conquerors surpassed the Nazis in their plundering of the art and cultural …
The Failure of Collaboration
The defeat of France by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940 ushered what the French later called Les Année …
Remembering the USCGC Acushnet
On March 11, 2011, at Coast Guard Base Support Unit Ketchikan, Alaska, the 67-year-old Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet was officially …
War With “Unprecedented, Unmerciful, and Unrelenting Harshness:” Hitler, Operation Barbarossa, and the Commissar Order
The polished cars of the German military began arriving early at the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin on March …
What Happened to Blue Grass Girl?
Seconds after “bombs away” over Berlin, 1st Lt. Lewis K. Cloud hauled back on the control yoke, applied rudder, and …
Book Review – Mission to Berlin: The American Airmen Who Struck the Heart of Hitler’s Reich
Mission to Berlin: The American Airmen Who Struck the Heart of Hitler’s Reich is an amazing account of American heroism …
Pearl Harbor Survivor Sikorsky JRS-1 Moves to Museum Facility
In March, the world’s only surviving Sikorsky JRS-1 amphibious seaplane (the military version of the Sikorsky S-43) arrived at the …