The potentially devastating weapon the Nazis gave civilians to fight Allied soldiers
As 1944 was becoming 1945, World War II in Europe was not going well for the Nazis. The German Army was being pushed back on all fronts and Allied troops…
Today in military history: Operation Dynamo begins the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk
On May 26, 1940, Operation Dynamo began, starting the evacuation of over 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk’s beaches in France. British and French armies were cornered by the advancing German…
This British aircraft carrier served in the US Navy
Beginning on June 30, 1943, American soldiers, marines and sailors would endure three months of hard fighting to retake the New Georgia Islands from the Japanese in the Pacific. While the ground troops slugged their way through the thick jungles, th…
Today in military history: Battle of Beersheba
On Oct. 31, 1917, the Third Battle of Gaza began as Allied forces attacked the Turks at Beersheba in Palestine. The first two attacks at Gaza failed, but by mid-October…
The teen who spied on Nazis as she sold them soap
Phyllis “Pippa” Latour Doyle parachuted into Normandy in early May 1944, posed as a teen whose family had moved to the region to escape Allied bombing, and sold soap to…
The last stand of 3/395: how one US Army battalion helped win the Battle of the Bulge
By December 1944, Allied armies had reached the western border of Germany itself. The US Army’s 99th Infantry Division, recently arrived in Europe and untested in combat, was assigned to the northern “shoulder” of the Allied front line in the Ard…
World leaders unite in honor of D-Day 75th
Western leaders have joined Queen Elizabeth II in southern England to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the largest military landing operation in history that speeded up the end of World War II.
U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancel…