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• July 10, 2026OV-10 Bronco
  The greatest American garage project?
• July 3, 2026The Huey
  The workhorse of Vietnam
• June 26, 2026The Nissen Hut and Relatives
  Housing an army on the cheap
• June 19, 2026Landing Craft Tank
  The giants of the landing craft family
• June 12, 2026The 4th Infantry Division
  “Steadfast and Loyal”
• May 29, 2026Landing Craft Assault
  The British way of hitting the shore
• May 22, 2026The Bruneval Raid
  Snagging a German radar set
• May 15, 2026A Helmet Full of Beer
  The story of Vincent Speranza and the Airborne Beer
• April 17, 2026The Invasion of Iran
  When Britain and the Soviets agreed
• April 10, 2026The T-34
  Russia’s savior
• April 3, 2026Focke-Wulf Fw 190
  The Butcher Bird
• March 27, 2026Westmoreland
  The man who lost Vietnam?
• March 20, 2026A Village of Many Faces
  The World War II guises of Hatfield Aerodrome
• March 6, 2026Panzerfaust
  Smashing armor
• February 27, 2026Washington’s First Battle – Part II
  The OTHER shot heard round the world
• February 20, 2026Washington’s First Battle - Part I
  The OTHER shot heard round the world
• February 13, 2026Greenland and the United States – Part II
  A relationship forged in war
• February 6, 2026Greenland and the United States - Part I
  A relationship forged in war
• January 30, 2026Panzerschreck
  The „German bazooka”
• January 23, 2026Cobra King
  “First in Bastogne”
• December 26, 2025Japan’s Road to Pearl Harbor – Part II
  Was the attack on America inevitable?
• December 19, 2025Japan’s Road to Pearl Harbor - Part I
  Was the attack on America inevitable?
• December 12, 2025Churchill - Part II
  The man Britain needed
• December 5, 2025Churchill - Part I
  The man Britain needed
• November 20, 2025The Fighting Sons and Daughters – Part II
  The serving children of leaders
• November 13, 2025The MG 34 and 42
  Germany’s universal machine guns
• November 6, 2025America’s First Navy – Part II
  The Continental Navy in the War of Independence
• October 29, 2025Trick or Treat! (Mostly Trick)
  Bewitching mysteries in World War II
• October 21, 2025America’s First Navy – Part I
  The Continental Navy in the War of Independence
• October 16, 2025The cheeses of Normandy in- and outside World War II
  A glimpse into the culinary world of the region beyond the invasion beaches
• October 9, 2025SHAEF – Part II
  Eisenhower’s men
• October 2, 2025SHAEF - Part I
  Eisenhower’s men
• September 25, 2025Hollywood Goes to War – Part II
  Hollywood celebrities in World War II
• September 18, 2025The Bomb that Maneuvered
  The sinking of the battleship Roma
• September 11, 2025The First to the Skies
  The Union Balloon Corps
• September 4, 2025Factions of the Resistance – Part II
  The groups that resisted
• August 29, 2025Factions of the Resistance – Part I
  The groups that fought back
• August 22, 2025Tiger II
  Fixing the Tiger
• August 15, 2025The All American Division
  The 82nd Airborne
• August 7, 202511 Things You Didn’t Know About Lewis Nixon
  Trivia about Dick Winter’s friend and fellow officer
• August 1, 2025The Golden Talons
  The 17th Airborne Division
• July 24, 2025The Fighting Sons and Daughters – Part I
  The serving children of leaders
• July 17, 2025Kesselring – Part II
  Uncle Albert in Italy
• July 10, 2025Kesselring – Part I
  The Uncle Albert of both the German army and air force
• July 3, 2025The First to Die – Part II
  The first American victims of the nation’s wars
• June 26, 2025The Siege of Malta
  The fortress island of the Mediterranean
• June 19, 2025Capturing Caen – Part II
  The slugging match of Normandy
• June 12, 2025The First to Die – Part I
  The first American victims of the nation’s wars
• June 5, 2025Capturing Caen – Part I
  The slugging match of Normandy
• May 29, 2025The Big Red One
  The 1st Infantry Division
• May 22, 2025Zhukov
  Russia’s star general
• May 15, 2025The C-47
  The ubiquitous Gooney Bird
• May 9, 2025Hollywood Goes to War
  Hollywood celebrities in World War II
• April 30, 2025World War II guns in a galaxy far, far away
  May the Fourth be with you!
• April 25, 2025Tiger I
  Roaring beast or lazy tabby?
• April 17, 2025The Greco-Italian War
  The first Axis setback
• April 11, 2025Beating the Patient Weapon
  Landmine removal in World War II
• April 4, 2025The Patient Weapon
  German landmines in World War II
• March 28, 2025The Road to Anschluss
  Nazi Germany’s first conquest
• March 21, 2025Daniel Daly, double Medal of Honor recipient
  The fightingest Marine
• March 21, 2025Daniel Daly, double Medal of Honor recipient
  The fightingest Marine
• March 14, 2025Antis the Flying Dog
  The German Shepherd and the Czech gunner who flew missions for Britain
• March 5, 2025“Let slip the dogs of war”
  America’s war dogs
• February 28, 202513 things you didn't know about Dick Winters
  Trivia about the commanding officer of the Band of Brothers
• February 21, 2025The Winged Hussars of World War II
  The Polish 1st Armoured Division
• February 14, 2025The Battle of Kasserine Pass
  America gets bloodied
• February 7, 2025The People’s Car Goes to War
  Volkswagen in World War II
• January 31, 2025The Granville Raid
  Victory in vain
• January 24, 2025Omar Nelson Bradley
  „The GI’s general
• January 17, 2025The Hour of the Battle Babies
  The battle of Elsenborn Ridge
• January 10, 2025"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" Part II
  The monarchs of occupied Europe
• January 2, 2025"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
  The monarchs of occupied Europe
• December 20, 2024The Channel Islands in WWII
  German boots on British soil
• December 20, 2024The Channel Islands in WWII
  German boots on British soil
• December 13, 2024The Warsaw Uprising
  Hope and Defeat
• December 6, 2024Inside the Führerbunker
  History, Architecture, and Legacy
• November 29, 2024De Havilland Mosquito
  The Wooden Wonder
• November 15, 2024Inside the WWI Trenches: Warfare, Survival, and the Soldiers' Experience
  The dreadful birthplace of a new form of war
• November 8, 2024The Second Battle of El Alamein
  The end of the beginning
• November 1, 2024Preaching to the Other Choir
  Radio propaganda in World War II
• October 25, 2024The Sten Gun
  Firepower on the cheap
• October 18, 2024John Paul Jones – Part II
  The Father of the U.S. Navy
• October 11, 2024John Paul Jones
  The Father of the U.S. Navy
• October 4, 2024Giants Doomed to Failure
  The Yamato-class
• September 20, 2024Hatching the Eagle
  The birth of the Luftwaffe
• September 13, 2024The End of World War II
  The signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
• August 30, 2024The Battle of Westerplatte
  Poland's Thermopylae
• August 23, 2024The StuG
  Germany's premier not-a-tank
• August 16, 2024Montgomery - Part II
  In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.
• August 9, 2024Montgomery - Part I
  In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.
• August 2, 2024"Flame all across Britain"
  The Petroleum Warfare Department
• July 25, 2024George C. Marshall
  The organizer of victory
• July 19, 2024Focke-Wulf Fw 190
  The Butcher Bird
• July 12, 2024Night of the Long Knives
  Purging dissent within the Nazi Party
• July 5, 2024The rank you hold
  The origins of rank names
• June 28, 2024The Supreme Commander – Part II
  The career of Dwight D. Eisenhower
• June 21, 2024The Supreme Commander – Part I
  The career of Dwight D. Eisenhower
• June 14, 2024The Battle of Villers-Bocage
  Freezing the frontline in Normandy
• June 7, 2024The Waco CG-4 glider
  On silent wings
• May 31, 2024Hunting the Bismarck – Part II
  The first and last voyage of the German icon
• May 24, 2024Hunting the Bismarck – Part I
  The first and last voyage of the German icon
• May 17, 2024Rudolf Hess – Part II
  The Nazi who tried to end the war single-handedly
• May 10, 2024Rudolf Hess – Part I
  The Nazi who tried to end the war single-handedly
• May 3, 2024The M8 Greyhound
  America's armored car
• May 1, 2024The heartbreaking photo that won the hearts and minds of Americans
  
• April 26, 2024Yamamoto - Part II
  The man behind Pearl Harbor
• April 19, 2024Yamamoto - Part I
  The man behind Pearl Harbor
• April 17, 2024Why did the U.S. declare war on Germany in WWI?
  
• April 12, 2024Operation Pluto
  (Not) Supplying D-Day with fuel
• April 5, 2024The B-17 Flying Fortress
  The Flying Fortress that bombed Fortress Europe
• March 28, 2024Chuck Yeager
  The first to race sound and win
• March 22, 2024The Battle of the Beams
  Riding the radio waves
• March 14, 2024The P-51 Mustang
  The bombers' Little Friend
• March 8, 2024Spring Awakening
  Hitler’s last offensive
• March 1, 2024The Medal of Honor
  America’s highest military decoration
• February 23, 2024Presidents who served - Part II
  Future and former presidents in the military
• February 16, 2024Presidents who served – Part I
  Future and former presidents in the military
• February 9, 2024Audie Murphy
  The most decorated American soldier of World War II
• February 2, 2024The secrets of Lend-Lease
  Trivia about the program that kept the Allies alive
• January 26, 2024To give name to the fallen
  The Graves Registration Service
• January 19, 2024Avro Lancaster
  The not-so-gentle giant
• January 12, 2024The war crimes of Joachim Peiper
  The poster boy of the Waffen-SS
• January 5, 2024The guns of John Browning
  The father of modern firearms
• December 29, 2023The M3 Medium Tank
  A good enough tank for the time being
• December 22, 2023800 dead on Christmas Eve
  The sinking of the SS Léopoldville
• December 15, 2023The man who said "Nuts!"
  General Anthony McAuliffe
• December 8, 2023Donald Duck goes to war
  Walt Disney in World War II
• December 1, 2023The lethal strike of Typhoon Cobra
  The storm that caused more damage than battle
• November 24, 2023The Dowding system
  Victory by information
• November 17, 2023General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell
  The right man in the wrong place?
• November 10, 2023The F4U Corsair
  From failure to greatness
• November 3, 2023The weather war
  Shots fired for a better forecast
• October 27, 2023Douglas MacArthur – Part II
  The American Caesar
• October 20, 2023Douglas MacArthur – Part I
  The American Caesar
• October 13, 2023The Sea Lion that sank
  Operation Seelöwe
• October 6, 2023The Bf 109
  Germany’s knife in the air
• September 29, 2023William Slim – from defeat to victory
  The finest general World War II produced
• September 22, 2023Feeding an army
  U.S. Army rations in World War II and before
• September 15, 2023Operation Market Garden
  A 90% success
• September 8, 2023900 days of starvation
  The siege of Leningrad
• September 1, 2023Stories of Poland’s fall
  Stories true and false of the first invasion of World War II
• August 25, 2023The Liberation of Paris
  Is Paris burning?
• August 17, 2023“The last of the World War II heroic generals”
  The service of General Maxwell Taylor
• August 11, 2023How to kill a Panzer
  The evolution of American tank destroyers
• August 4, 2023The Huisnes-sur-Mer German military cemetery
  The mausoleum of dark secrets
• July 28, 2023“The Army’s architect”
  General Leslie J. McNair
• July 21, 2023The Cobra strikes
  Operation Cobra
• July 14, 2023The Battle of Castle Itter
  Enemies fighting side by side
• July 7, 2023The largest tank battle in history
  The Battle of Kursk
• June 29, 2023The terror that lingers
  Post-traumatic stress disorder in war
• June 23, 2023The Old Man and War
  Ernest Hemingway’s wartime service
• June 16, 2023Just what is a “D-Day,” exactly?
  The origins of the phrase
• June 9, 2023Taking Pegasus Bridge
  The most famous glider operation of World War II
• June 2, 2023Lord Mountbatten
  Shaping the British Empire, for better or worse
• May 26, 2023The Higgins boat
  The boat that won the war
• May 19, 2023The Dambusters Raid
  After me, the flood
• May 12, 2023Operation Benjamin
  Ensuring the appropriate resting place for Jewish American soldiers
• May 5, 2023The Battle of Castle Itter
  Enemies fighting side by side
• April 28, 2023Operation Mincemeat
  The ruse swallowed rod, line and sinker
• April 21, 2023Supermarine Spitfire
  The British legend
• April 14, 2023The General of the Armies
  The career of John Pershing
• April 7, 2023The Battle of Drøbak Sound
  Either I will be decorated or I will be court martialed
• March 31, 2023The afterlife of a Band of Brothers Tour
  The story of Joseph Neri
• March 24, 2023The Tube as a shelter
  How London's Underground stations saved lives during the Blitz
• March 17, 2023General Mark Clark
  The controversial conqueror of Rome
• March 9, 2023The Bari air raid
  Poison on the water
• March 3, 2023"Time will not dim the glory of their deeds."
  One hundred years of the American Battle Monuments Commission
• February 24, 2023The B-26 Marauder
  The Widowmaker
• February 17, 2023The Cromwell tank
  How the jumping tank came about
• February 10, 2023The rivalry between Montgomery and Patton
  The unofficial race for Messina
• February 3, 2023The field marshal who surrendered
  Field Marshal Paulus at Stalingrad
• February 3, 2023The field marshal who surrendered
  Field Marshal Paulus at Stalingrad
• January 27, 2023Tony Vaccaro's life of war and fame
  The photographer who witnessed World War II up close
• January 20, 2023Anzio: “a vain-glorious blunder”
  The controversial Allied landings near Rome
• January 13, 2023Hidden stories of the Battle of the Bulge
  9 lesser-known facts about the battle
• January 6, 2023The American half-track
  The M3 half-track and its large family
• December 30, 2022The Browning .50 cal
  Ma deuce
• December 23, 2022The wars of George S. Patton
  The service of America’s most colorful general
• December 16, 2022To the German Commander: N U T S !
  The story of McAuliffe’s famous reply at Bastogne
• December 9, 2022Medals of Honor at Pearl Harbor
  The men who earned the highest decoration on the Day of Infamy
• December 2, 2022Planning World War II – Part 2
  The Allied war conferences
• November 25, 2022Planning World War II – Part 1
  The Allied war conferences
• November 18, 2022Kristallnacht
  The Holocaust begins
• November 4, 2022Hitler’s fireman
  The career and death of General Walter Model
• October 28, 2022The ship types of World War II
  The origins of WWII vessels
• October 21, 2022The Rangers in the South
  The U.S. Army Rangers in Africa and Italy
• October 14, 2022The sinking of PT-109
  John F. Kennedy’s shipwreck and rescue in the Pacific
• October 7, 2022Birth of the Army Rangers
  A tradition older than the nation
• September 30, 2022USS Robin, the carrier that never was
  Britain’s helping hand in America’s time of need
• September 23, 2022WW2 veteran on our tour
  Update from a special Band of Brothers Tour - Part 2
• September 16, 2022WW2 veteran on our tour
  Update from a special Band of Brothers Tour - Part 1
• September 9, 2022Rescuing Mussolini
  The Nazi raid to liberate the Duce
• August 26, 2022The Screaming Eagles
  The history of the 101st Airborne Division
• August 19, 2022The Dieppe Raid
  A necessary evil?
• August 12, 2022Badass paratrooper or war criminal?
  Ronald „Sparky Speirs
• August 5, 2022The "devil boats" of America
  The Patrol Torpedo Boat
• July 29, 2022The liberation of Mont-Saint-Michel
  History’s smallest liberation army
• July 22, 2022The American war hero who also saved Korea
  General Matthew Ridgway
• July 15, 2022Ushering in the jet age
  The Messerschmitt Me 262
• July 8, 2022"Survival cannot be expected"
  The Battle off Samar
• July 1, 2022The “Widowmaker”
  The B-26 Marauder
• June 24, 2022Dick Winters' first battle
  Textbook tactics – Brécourt Manor
• June 17, 2022"It took airborne soldiers to do this"
  Crossing the La Fiére causeway
• June 17, 2022"It took airborne soldiers to do this"
  Crossing the La Fiére causeway
• June 10, 2022Cole's bayonet charge
  Going down Purple Heart Lane
• June 3, 2022Jumping into chaos
  The paratrooper jumps into Normandy
• May 27, 2022The “anti-tank crossbow”
  The PIAT
• May 20, 2022Jumping into Normandy
  The equipment and vehicles of airborne troopers
• May 13, 2022The last days of a dictator
  Mussolini's execution
• May 6, 2022What's in a code name?
  The birth and development of operation code names
• April 29, 2022The liberation of Dachau
  Nothing you can put in words would adequately describe what I saw there.
• April 22, 2022The tortoise in the race
  The Churchill tank
• April 20, 2022America strikes back
  The Doolittle Raid
• April 14, 2022A heavyweight big cat
  The Sturmtiger
• April 8, 2022The man with iron will and metal teeth
  Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
• April 8, 2022The man with iron will and metal teeth
  Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
• April 4, 2022Returning to normal in the post-COVID age
  
• April 1, 2022When April Fools go to war
  Pranking the enemy (or your own side)
• March 30, 2022"The greatest raid of all"
  The St Nazaire raid
• March 23, 2022The real Great Escape
  The history behind the popular war movie
• March 18, 2022The cutest military utility vehicle
  The M29 Weasel
• March 11, 2022The German workhorse: Panzer IV
  Germany's most numerous tank
• March 9, 2022With a tank and a smile
  General Jacob Devers
• March 7, 2022The princess spy
  The life and death of Noor Inayat Khan
• February 23, 2022The M4 Sherman
  The myths and reality of the iconic tank
• February 18, 2022The soundtrack of the Greatest Generation
  Glenn Miller helped the war effort with his music
• February 13, 2022Razing Monte Cassino
  The bombing of the medieval abbey in World War II
• February 9, 2022The Tiger of Malaya
  General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the legal principle named after him
• February 4, 2022Rosie the Riveter and her sisters
  The multiple identities of the famous figure
• January 28, 2022The deadliest maritime disaster in history
  The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff during Operation Hannibal
• January 26, 2022Like lightning from a clear sky
  The P-38 Lightning
• January 19, 2022Becoming Führer
  Hitler's rise to power in Germany
• January 14, 2022The Griffin that didn’t fly
  The daring German false flag operation during the Battle of the Bulge
• January 12, 2022The Hitler family feud
  Hitler's nephew who turned against his uncle
• January 7, 2022The painkiller of battlefields
  Morphine
• January 5, 2022Superspy killed first at age 12
  Fritz Duquesne and the largest spy ring ever captured in America
• December 31, 2021Infantry in drag
  Cross-dressing German soldiers of WWII
• December 29, 2021The Angels of Bastogne
  The two legendary nurses of the Bulge and the doctor they had helped
• December 22, 2021A Christmas miracle in the Ardennes
  The small truce negotiated by a mother
• December 17, 2021The Battalion lost 154 on D-Day+1
  Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 5
• December 13, 2021Wojtek, the soldier bear
  The Polish army's most unusual private
• December 9, 2021The monuments of Utah Beach
  Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 4
• December 7, 2021Predicting Pearl Harbor
  The American commanders who predicted what might happen
• December 6, 2021The last Easy Company officer passing away
  Remembering Colonel Edward D. Shames
• December 3, 2021Wargames
  This is no ordinary sort of game, this is schooling for war!
• December 3, 2021Wargames
  This is no ordinary sort of game, this is schooling for war!
• December 1, 2021The Utah Beach Museum
  Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.3
• November 26, 2021General "Lightning" Joe Collins
  The general who made a name for himself in two theaters
• November 24, 2021The Bazooka
  A tank-killing stovepipe
• November 19, 2021The duel of HMAS Sydney and Kormoran
  In fatal embrace
• November 17, 2021The pioneering attack on Taranto
  Italy's Pearl Harbor
• November 12, 2021Thanksgiving during World War II
  How Thanksgiving was celebrated at home and in the trenches
• November 10, 2021The carpenter who almost killed Hitler
  Georg Elser
• November 10, 2021The carpenter who almost killed Hitler
  Georg Elser
• November 5, 2021The Kettenkrad
  The marriage of a motorcycle and a half-track
• November 3, 2021America's politics before World War II
  From neutrality to taking sides
• October 29, 2021The FG42 paratrooper rifle
  A paratrooper’s dream, an engineer’s nightmare
• October 25, 2021Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.2
  The Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Église
• October 22, 2021The medieval Band of Brothers
  The historical battle that inspired the moniker
• October 20, 2021The Bailey bridge
  A war-winning instant bridge 
• October 18, 2021Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic
  The sight where The Longest Day movie was shot
• October 15, 2021Old Abe, the original Screaming Eagle
  The real eagle on the 101st Airborne's insignia
• October 12, 2021The service of General Norman Cota
  The oldest man on Omaha Beach
• October 8, 2021The story of Adidas and Puma
  The factory of running shoes and rocket launchers
• October 5, 2021A war crime in any language
  Translating the Nuremberg Trials
• October 1, 2021Hobart’s Funnies
  Funny killing machines
• September 28, 2021"Terrible" Terry, the bad boy general
  The rise, downfall, and second rise of General Terry Allen
• September 24, 2021The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife
  Kill or be killed
• September 21, 2021America's bloody blunder in Europe
  The battle of Hürtgen Forest
• September 17, 2021The German war cemetery of reconciliation
  The largest German war cemetery in Normandy
• September 14, 2021The .30 cal Browning
  John Browning's iconic medium machine gun
• September 10, 2021The Stahlhelm
  An iconic helmet from the 20th century
• September 7, 2021The Benelux states in World War II
  Under German occupation in Western Europe
• September 3, 2021The Liberation of Paris
  Is Paris burning?
• August 31, 2021The Falaise pocket
  The corridor of death
• August 27, 2021The Dieppe Raid
  A necessary evil?
• August 24, 2021The Browning Automatic Rifle
  A gun looking for a job
• August 20, 2021Operation Dragoon
  The Champagne Campaign
• August 17, 2021The Jewel Voice Broadcast
  The emperor's voice and the soldiers who tried to silence it
• August 17, 2021The Jewel Voice Broadcast
  The emperor's voice and the soldiers who tried to silence it
• August 13, 2021The Dirlewanger Brigade
  The real-life manifestation of true evil?
• August 12, 2021Anne Frank
  The diarist girl in the attic
• August 12, 2021Silverplate
  Getting the A-bomb there
• August 6, 2021The liberation of Mont-Saint-Michel
  History’s smallest liberation army
• August 3, 2021The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
  Germany wins gold in propaganda
• July 27, 2021The Potsdam Conference & Declaration
  The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.
• July 20, 2021Valkyrie
  Hitler's close brush with death
• July 16, 2021The Thompson submachine gun
  From the streets of Chicago to the battlefields
• July 13, 2021The liberation of Dachau
  Nothing you can put in words would adequately describe what I saw there.
• July 9, 2021James M. Gavin, the “Jumping General”
  First out of the airplane door and last in the chow line
• July 2, 2021The liberation of Cherbourg
  Capturing the first deep-water port in Normandy
• June 29, 2021The accomplishments and legacy of the Desert Fox
  Erwin Rommel: war or propaganda hero?
• June 25, 2021Deception on D-Day
  The attack of the paradummies
• June 22, 2021The M1 Garand rifle
  The greatest battle implement ever devised
• June 18, 2021The Goliath
  The remote-controlled demolition vehicle that inspired today’s unmanned ground vehicles
• June 15, 2021Germany's V-1 vengeance weapon
  The deadly doodlebug
• June 11, 2021The Crisbecq battery
  The first German position to spot the Allied fleet on D-Day
• June 8, 2021The Martyr Village of Oradour-sur-Glane
  Where only six survived the Nazi massacre
• June 4, 2021Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, Jr.
  The oldest man in the first wave on D-Day
• June 1, 2021The first four to land
  The men who first came ashore on D-Day
• May 26, 2021The “Miracle of Dunkirk”
  Operation Dynamo
• May 19, 2021Operation Bodyguard
  The grand deception around D-Day
• May 12, 2021the American “duck”
  The engineering feat that revolutionized the landing process 
• May 4, 2021Operation Magic Carpet
  The dauting task of returning the troops home after WWII
• April 28, 2021Exercise Tiger
  The dress rehearsal of D-Day gone terribly wrong
• April 16, 2021The Siege of Tobruk
  The Italo-German siege that put Commonwealth troops to the test for 241 days
• April 13, 2021Prince Philip, war hero
  A tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh with a recollection of his wartime service
• April 9, 2021The German invasion of Norway
  The battle for the iron ore and the access to the Atlantic Ocean
• April 6, 2021The Jeep
  The U.S. Army’s Go Anywhere. Do Anything vehicle and the race against time to develop it
• April 2, 2021Easter 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.
• March 30, 2021Pointe 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
• March 24, 2021Liberty Ships
  With the Third Reich's attack on Great Britain in 1940, the British could no longer produce ships.
• March 17, 2021The M1 helmet, the “steel pot”
  An iconic piece of American military history that saved thousands of lives
• March 5, 2021D-Day commemorations in Normandy
  Nowhere in the world are veterans honored as sincerely as in Normandy during the D-Day commemorations.