American attackers across the Pacific faced a hellish task. Marines, soldiers and sailors made landfall again and again. On each island, they faced stubborn, well-trained defenders with knowledge of the…
America was famously dragged into World War II by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It became the industrial powerhouse of the allies. It sent supplies to Great Britain, Free…
“Damn American dogs, we massacre you!” a Japanese soldier screamed through the fog toward the cold, hungry and exhausted American soldiers huddled below in valley foxholes on the island of…
With the new Godzilla movie coming out this Friday (May 31), we thought it would be a good time to remind everyone that we only have the iconic movie monster—or the more than dozen other kaiju of the Godzilla universe—thanks to the survival of a…
There’s a long-standing, often forgotten atrocity that occurred in our country: the imprisonment of our own citizens during WWII. Perhaps you’ve heard about the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII….
Aunt Jemima might be retired now, replaced as a brand name by Pearl Milling Company, but her legacy is one that helped sabotage Japanese efforts to conquer China in World…
Napoleon is credited for saying that an Army marches on its stomach. Whether he actually said that or not is disputed, but whomever did say that was correct: Food is…
Bizarre, seemingly impossible anachronistic historical matchups aren’t just for wargaming or Sid Meier’s Civilization. There’s at least one instance in recorded history where European regular infantrymen were called on to…
There’s no doubt the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a devastating blow to the U.S. military and its capabilities in the Pacific Ocean. It wasn’t the crippling blow it…
One of the most dangerous missions for an Army Air Forces pilot during World War II was a trip flying over “The Hump” – a flight between India and China…