A New Home: How the Pentagon Came to Be
On Thursday, July 17, 1941, the day that New York Yankees centerfielder Joe DiMaggio would go 0-3 against the Cleveland …
World War II
Brain Buckets, Tin Hats, and Steel Pots: Helmets Have Improved Over Nearly a Century of Use
It’s hard not to get a sickening feeling, staring at photographs of all the gallant young soldiers, resplendent in their …
Hitler’s Winter Blunder
On Nov. 8, 1941, Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels published an article in the magazine Reich that called …
Activating War Plans Rainbow 5 and Indigo 3
September 1941 was a watershed month for neutral America’s military policy. Prior to June 1941, in an acknowledgment of Japanese …
Operation Torch: YBSOB Decoded
One of the most critical issues facing the Allies in 1942 was where to open a second front in the …
F6F Hellcat Air Show Flight | Video
Ride along on the tail of a World War II-era Grumman F6F Hellcat during the Beale Air Force Base air …
William J. Donovan and the Office of Strategic Services
“Strategy, without information upon which it can rely, is helpless. Likewise, information is useless unless it is intelligently directed …
The OSS Society
This article was originally published in the 2018-2019 edition of Special Operations Outlook.
When the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) …
The Americans on D-Day | Photos
On the anniversary of D-Day, we bring to you a selection of photographs as seen in The Americans on D-Day: …
Semper Fi: Women in the Marine Corps
At Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, one of the side streets near the intersection of Holcomb and McHugh …