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In late 1944, Allied armies approached Western Germany after the breakout from Normandy and the collapse of German positions in France. Maps drawn at headquarters…

The port looked small on the map. In reality, it became a hinge around which an entire desert campaign turned. In early 1941, the North…

The invasion fleet did not move like a triumphant armada. It crept forward under cloud and uncertainty. By June 1944, the Allied command had assembled…

At 10:03 on the morning of June 19th, 1944, Lieutenant Junior Grade Alexander Vraciu sat in the cockpit of his F6F Hellcat. He was on…

At approximately 5:00 in the afternoon, February 20th, 1942, nine Japanese bombers were inbound toward the fleet carrier  Lexington operating in the Bismarck Sea. They…

10 minutes past 11 in the morning, the 7th of May, 1942. The Japanese light carrier was in the Coral Sea north of a small…

At 10:30 in the morning, Wake Island time, on the 22nd of December, 1941, Captain Herbert Freller, gunnery and ordinance officer of Marine Fighting Squadron…

No One Wanted Him—Until the Obese Bride Married the Mountain Man and Uncovered His Secret Pity is a foul currency. Madison knew its weight intimately,…

On the afternoon of September 15th, 1942, six American transports were crossing open water southeast of Guadal Canal, and a Japanese submarine officer named Commander…