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- Japan’s Road to Pearl Harbor – Part II
Was the attack on America inevitable? - Japan’s Road to Pearl Harbor - Part I
Was the attack on America inevitable? - Churchill - Part II
The man Britain needed - Churchill - Part I
The man Britain needed - The Fighting Sons and Daughters – Part II
The serving children of leaders - The MG 34 and 42
Germany’s universal machine guns - America’s First Navy – Part II
The Continental Navy in the War of Independence - Trick or Treat! (Mostly Trick)
Bewitching mysteries in World War II - America’s First Navy – Part I
The Continental Navy in the War of Independence - The cheeses of Normandy in- and outside World War II
A glimpse into the culinary world of the region beyond the invasion beaches - SHAEF – Part II
Eisenhower’s men - SHAEF - Part I
Eisenhower’s men - Hollywood Goes to War – Part II
Hollywood celebrities in World War II - The Bomb that Maneuvered
The sinking of the battleship Roma - The First to the Skies
The Union Balloon Corps - Factions of the Resistance – Part II
The groups that resisted - Factions of the Resistance – Part I
The groups that fought back - Tiger II
Fixing the Tiger - The All American Division
The 82nd Airborne - 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Lewis Nixon
Trivia about Dick Winter’s friend and fellow officer - The Golden Talons
The 17th Airborne Division - The Fighting Sons and Daughters – Part I
The serving children of leaders - Kesselring – Part II
Uncle Albert in Italy - Kesselring – Part I
The Uncle Albert of both the German army and air force - The First to Die – Part II
The first American victims of the nation’s wars - The Siege of Malta
The fortress island of the Mediterranean - Capturing Caen – Part II
The slugging match of Normandy - The First to Die – Part I
The first American victims of the nation’s wars - Capturing Caen – Part I
The slugging match of Normandy - The Big Red One
The 1st Infantry Division - Zhukov
Russia’s star general - The C-47
The ubiquitous Gooney Bird - Hollywood Goes to War
Hollywood celebrities in World War II - World War II guns in a galaxy far, far away
May the Fourth be with you! - Tiger I
Roaring beast or lazy tabby? - The Greco-Italian War
The first Axis setback - Beating the Patient Weapon
Landmine removal in World War II - The Patient Weapon
German landmines in World War II - The Road to Anschluss
Nazi Germany’s first conquest - Daniel Daly, double Medal of Honor recipient
The fightingest Marine - Daniel Daly, double Medal of Honor recipient
The fightingest Marine - Antis the Flying Dog
The German Shepherd and the Czech gunner who flew missions for Britain - “Let slip the dogs of war”
America’s war dogs - 13 things you didn't know about Dick Winters
Trivia about the commanding officer of the Band of Brothers - The Winged Hussars of World War II
The Polish 1st Armoured Division - The Battle of Kasserine Pass
America gets bloodied - The People’s Car Goes to War
Volkswagen in World War II - The Granville Raid
Victory in vain - Omar Nelson Bradley
„The GI’s general - The Hour of the Battle Babies
The battle of Elsenborn Ridge - "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" Part II
The monarchs of occupied Europe - "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
The monarchs of occupied Europe - The Channel Islands in WWII
German boots on British soil - The Channel Islands in WWII
German boots on British soil - The Warsaw Uprising
Hope and Defeat - Inside the Führerbunker:
History, Architecture, and Legacy - De Havilland Mosquito
The Wooden Wonder - Inside the WWI Trenches: Warfare, Survival, and the Soldiers' Experience
The dreadful birthplace of a new form of war - The Second Battle of El Alamein
The end of the beginning - Preaching to the Other Choir
Radio propaganda in World War II - The Sten Gun
Firepower on the cheap - John Paul Jones – Part II
The Father of the U.S. Navy - John Paul Jones
The Father of the U.S. Navy - Giants Doomed to Failure
The Yamato-class - Hatching the Eagle
The birth of the Luftwaffe - The End of World War II
The signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender - The Battle of Westerplatte
Poland's Thermopylae - The StuG
Germany's premier not-a-tank - Montgomery - Part II
In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable. - Montgomery - Part I
In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable. - "Flame all across Britain"
The Petroleum Warfare Department - George C. Marshall
The organizer of victory - Focke-Wulf Fw 190
The Butcher Bird - Night of the Long Knives
Purging dissent within the Nazi Party - The rank you hold
The origins of rank names - The Supreme Commander – Part II
The career of Dwight D. Eisenhower - The Supreme Commander – Part I
The career of Dwight D. Eisenhower - The Battle of Villers-Bocage
Freezing the frontline in Normandy - The Waco CG-4 glider
On silent wings - Hunting the Bismarck – Part II
The first and last voyage of the German icon - Hunting the Bismarck – Part I
The first and last voyage of the German icon - Rudolf Hess – Part II
The Nazi who tried to end the war single-handedly - Rudolf Hess – Part I
The Nazi who tried to end the war single-handedly - The M8 Greyhound
America's armored car - The heartbreaking photo that won the hearts and minds of Americans
- Yamamoto
The man behind Pearl Harbor – Part II - Yamamoto
The man behind Pearl Harbor - Why did the U.S. declare war on Germany in WWI?
- Operation Pluto
(Not) Supplying D-Day with fuel - The B-17 Flying Fortress
The Flying Fortress that bombed Fortress Europe - Chuck Yeager
The first to race sound and win - The Battle of the Beams
Riding the radio waves - The P-51 Mustang
The bombers' Little Friend - Spring Awakening
Hitler’s last offensive - The Medal of Honor
America’s highest military decoration - Presidents who served - Part II
Future and former presidents in the military - Presidents who served – Part I
Future and former presidents in the military - Audie Murphy
The most decorated American soldier of World War II - The secrets of Lend-Lease
Trivia about the program that kept the Allies alive - To give name to the fallen
The Graves Registration Service - Avro Lancaster
The not-so-gentle giant - The war crimes of Joachim Peiper
The poster boy of the Waffen-SS - The guns of John Browning
The father of modern firearms - The M3 Medium Tank
A good enough tank for the time being - 800 dead on Christmas Eve
The sinking of the SS Léopoldville - The man who said "Nuts!"
General Anthony McAuliffe - Donald Duck goes to war
Walt Disney in World War II - The lethal strike of Typhoon Cobra
The storm that caused more damage than battle - The Dowding system
Victory by information - General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell
The right man in the wrong place? - The F4U Corsair
From failure to greatness - The weather war
Shots fired for a better forecast - Douglas MacArthur – Part II
The American Caesar - Douglas MacArthur – Part I
The American Caesar - The Sea Lion that sank
Operation Seelöwe - The Bf 109
Germany’s knife in the air - William Slim – from defeat to victory
The finest general World War II produced - William Slim – from defeat to victory
The finest general World War II produced - Feeding an army
U.S. Army rations in World War II and before - Operation Market Garden
A 90% success - 900 days of starvation
The siege of Leningrad - Stories of Poland’s fall
Stories true and false of the first invasion of World War II - The Liberation of Paris
Is Paris burning? - “The last of the World War II heroic generals”
The service of General Maxwell Taylor - How to kill a Panzer
The evolution of American tank destroyers - The Huisnes-sur-Mer German military cemetery
The mausoleum of dark secrets - “The Army’s architect”
General Leslie J. McNair - The Cobra strikes
Operation Cobra - The Battle of Castle Itter
Enemies fighting side by side - The largest tank battle in history
The Battle of Kursk - The terror that lingers
Post-traumatic stress disorder in war - The Old Man and War
Ernest Hemingway’s wartime service - Just what is a “D-Day,” exactly?
The origins of the phrase - Taking Pegasus Bridge
The most famous glider operation of World War II - Lord Mountbatten
Shaping the British Empire, for better or worse - The Higgins boat
The boat that won the war - The Dambusters Raid
After me, the flood - Operation Benjamin
Ensuring the appropriate resting place for Jewish American soldiers - The Battle of Castle Itter
Enemies fighting side by side - Operation Mincemeat
The ruse swallowed rod, line and sinker - Supermarine Spitfire
The British legend - The General of the Armies
The career of John Pershing - The Battle of Drøbak Sound
Either I will be decorated or I will be court martialed - The afterlife of a Band of Brothers Tour
The story of Joseph Neri - The Tube as a shelter
How London's Underground stations saved lives during the Blitz - General Mark Clark
The controversial conqueror of Rome - The Bari air raid
Poison on the water - "Time will not dim the glory of their deeds."
One hundred years of the American Battle Monuments Commission - The B-26 Marauder
The Widowmaker - The Cromwell tank
How the jumping tank came about - The rivalry between Montgomery and Patton
The unofficial race for Messina - The field marshal who surrendered
Field Marshal Paulus at Stalingrad - The field marshal who surrendered
Field Marshal Paulus at Stalingrad - Tony Vaccaro's life of war and fame
The photographer who witnessed World War II up close - Anzio: “a vain-glorious blunder”
The controversial Allied landings near Rome - Hidden stories of the Battle of the Bulge
9 lesser-known facts about the battle - The American half-track
The M3 half-track and its large family - The Browning .50 cal
Ma deuce - The wars of George S. Patton
The service of America’s most colorful general - To the German Commander: N U T S !
The story of McAuliffe’s famous reply at Bastogne - Medals of Honor at Pearl Harbor
The men who earned the highest decoration on the Day of Infamy - Planning World War II – Part 2
The Allied war conferences - Planning World War II – Part 1
The Allied war conferences - Kristallnacht
The Holocaust begins - Hitler’s fireman
The career and death of General Walter Model - The ship types of World War II
The origins of WWII vessels - The Rangers in the South
The U.S. Army Rangers in Africa and Italy - The sinking of PT-109
John F. Kennedy’s shipwreck and rescue in the Pacific - Birth of the Army Rangers
A tradition older than the nation - USS Robin, the carrier that never was
Britain’s helping hand in America’s time of need - WW2 veteran on our tour
Update from a special Band of Brothers Tour - Part 2 - WW2 veteran on our tour
Update from a special Band of Brothers Tour - Part 1 - Rescuing Mussolini
The Nazi raid to liberate the Duce - The Screaming Eagles
The history of the 101st Airborne Division - The Dieppe Raid
A necessary evil? - Badass paratrooper or war criminal?
Ronald „Sparky Speirs - The "devil boats" of America
The Patrol Torpedo Boat - The liberation of Mont-Saint-Michel
History’s smallest liberation army - The American war hero who also saved Korea
General Matthew Ridgway - Ushering in the jet age
The Messerschmitt Me 262 - "Survival cannot be expected"
The Battle off Samar - The “Widowmaker”
The B-26 Marauder - Dick Winters' first battle
Textbook tactics – Brécourt Manor - "It took airborne soldiers to do this"
Crossing the La Fiére causeway - "It took airborne soldiers to do this"
Crossing the La Fiére causeway - Cole's bayonet charge
Going down Purple Heart Lane - Jumping into chaos
The paratrooper jumps into Normandy - The “anti-tank crossbow”
The PIAT - Jumping into Normandy
The equipment and vehicles of airborne troopers - The last days of a dictator
Mussolini's execution - What's in a code name?
The birth and development of operation code names - The liberation of Dachau
Nothing you can put in words would adequately describe what I saw there. - The tortoise in the race
The Churchill tank - America strikes back
The Doolittle Raid - A heavyweight big cat
The Sturmtiger - The man with iron will and metal teeth
Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky - The man with iron will and metal teeth
Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky - Returning to normal in the post-COVID age
- When April Fools go to war
Pranking the enemy (or your own side) - "The greatest raid of all"
The St Nazaire raid - The real Great Escape
The history behind the popular war movie - The cutest military utility vehicle
The M29 Weasel - The German workhorse: Panzer IV
Germany's most numerous tank - With a tank and a smile
General Jacob Devers - The princess spy
The life and death of Noor Inayat Khan - The M4 Sherman
The myths and reality of the iconic tank - The soundtrack of the Greatest Generation
Glenn Miller helped the war effort with his music - Razing Monte Cassino
The bombing of the medieval abbey in World War II - The Tiger of Malaya
General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the legal principle named after him - Rosie the Riveter and her sisters
The multiple identities of the famous figure - The deadliest maritime disaster in history
The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff during Operation Hannibal - Like lightning from a clear sky
The P-38 Lightning - A helmet full of beer
The story of Vincent Speranza and the Airborne Beer - Becoming Führer
Hitler's rise to power in Germany - The Griffin that didn’t fly
The daring German false flag operation during the Battle of the Bulge - The Hitler family feud
Hitler's nephew who turned against his uncle - The painkiller of battlefields
Morphine - Superspy killed first at age 12
Fritz Duquesne and the largest spy ring ever captured in America - Infantry in drag
Cross-dressing German soldiers of WWII - The Angels of Bastogne
The two legendary nurses of the Bulge and the doctor they had helped - A Christmas miracle in the Ardennes
The small truce negotiated by a mother - The Battalion lost 154 on D-Day+1
Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 5 - Wojtek, the soldier bear
The Polish army's most unusual private - The monuments of Utah Beach
Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 4 - Predicting Pearl Harbor
The American commanders who predicted what might happen - The last Easy Company officer passing away
Remembering Colonel Edward D. Shames - Wargames
This is no ordinary sort of game, this is schooling for war! - Wargames
This is no ordinary sort of game, this is schooling for war! - The Utah Beach Museum
Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.3 - General "Lightning" Joe Collins
The general who made a name for himself in two theaters - The Bazooka
A tank-killing stovepipe - The duel of HMAS Sydney and Kormoran
In fatal embrace - The pioneering attack on Taranto
Italy's Pearl Harbor - Thanksgiving during World War II
How Thanksgiving was celebrated at home and in the trenches - The carpenter who almost killed Hitler
Georg Elser - The carpenter who almost killed Hitler
Georg Elser - The Kettenkrad
The marriage of a motorcycle and a half-track - America's politics before World War II
From neutrality to taking sides - The FG42 paratrooper rifle
A paratrooper’s dream, an engineer’s nightmare - Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.2
The Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Église - The medieval Band of Brothers
The historical battle that inspired the moniker - The Bailey bridge
A war-winning instant bridge - Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic
The sight where The Longest Day movie was shot - Old Abe, the original Screaming Eagle
The real eagle on the 101st Airborne's insignia - The service of General Norman Cota
The oldest man on Omaha Beach - The story of Adidas and Puma
The factory of running shoes and rocket launchers - A war crime in any language
Translating the Nuremberg Trials - Hobart’s Funnies
Funny killing machines - "Terrible" Terry, the bad boy general
The rise, downfall, and second rise of General Terry Allen - The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife
Kill or be killed - America's bloody blunder in Europe
The battle of Hürtgen Forest - The German war cemetery of reconciliation
The largest German war cemetery in Normandy - The .30 cal Browning
John Browning's iconic medium machine gun - The Stahlhelm
An iconic helmet from the 20th century - The Benelux states in World War II
Under German occupation in Western Europe - The Liberation of Paris
Is Paris burning? - The Falaise pocket
The corridor of death - The Dieppe Raid
A necessary evil? - The Browning Automatic Rifle
A gun looking for a job - Operation Dragoon
The Champagne Campaign - The Jewel Voice Broadcast
The emperor's voice and the soldiers who tried to silence it - The Dirlewanger Brigade
The real-life manifestation of true evil? - Anne Frank
The diarist girl in the attic - Silverplate
Getting the A-bomb there - The liberation of Mont-Saint-Michel
History’s smallest liberation army - The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
Germany wins gold in propaganda - The Potsdam Conference & Declaration
The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction. - Valkyrie
Hitler's close brush with death - The Thompson submachine gun
From the streets of Chicago to the battlefields - The liberation of Dachau
Nothing you can put in words would adequately describe what I saw there. - James M. Gavin, the “Jumping General”
First out of the airplane door and last in the chow line - The liberation of Cherbourg
Capturing the first deep-water port in Normandy - The accomplishments and legacy of the Desert Fox
Erwin Rommel: war or propaganda hero? - Deception on D-Day
The attack of the paradummies - The M1 Garand rifle
The greatest battle implement ever devised - The Goliath
The remote-controlled demolition vehicle that inspired today’s unmanned ground vehicles - Germany's V-1 vengeance weapon
The deadly doodlebug - The Crisbecq battery
The first German position to spot the Allied fleet on D-Day - The Martyr Village of Oradour-sur-Glane
Where only six survived the Nazi massacre - Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, Jr.
The oldest man in the first wave on D-Day - The first four to land
The men who first came ashore on D-Day - The “Miracle of Dunkirk”
Operation Dynamo - Operation Bodyguard
The grand deception around D-Day - the American “duck”
The engineering feat that revolutionized the landing process - Operation Magic Carpet
The dauting task of returning the troops home after WWII - Exercise Tiger
The dress rehearsal of D-Day gone terribly wrong - Lord Mountbatten
The controversial and pompous life of Great Britain’s royal statesman and naval officer - The Siege of Tobruk
The Italo-German siege that put Commonwealth troops to the test for 241 days - Prince Philip, war hero
A tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh with a recollection of his wartime service - The German invasion of Norway
The battle for the iron ore and the access to the Atlantic Ocean - The Jeep
The U.S. Army’s Go Anywhere. Do Anything vehicle and the race against time to develop it - Easter in World War II
During this hopeful time of the year, we would like to wish a peaceful and blessed Easter to all of our readers and subscribers. - Pointe du Hoc
Rangers lead the way!- Nazi Germany had been preparing for an assault since 1942, calling for the construction of the 1,900-mile-long Atlantic Wall - Liberty Ships
With the Third Reich's attack on Great Britain in 1940, the British could no longer produce ships. - The M1 helmet, the “steel pot”
An iconic piece of American military history that saved thousands of lives - D-Day commemorations in Normandy
Nowhere in the world are veterans honored as sincerely as in Normandy during the D-Day commemorations.
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