Like fellow Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, pitcher Warren Spahn had his career interrupted by World War II. Unlike Williams, who was already famous when he was drafted, Spahn …
The American debacle at the Battle of Kasserine Pass had brought the simmering command crisis of II Corps to a head. But Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied forces …
Superbly adapted to the desert, the single-humped Arabian camel was domesticated around 4000 B.C. for its meat, milk, and wool, as a beast of burden, and finally as a riding …
Operation 25, the invasion of Yugoslavia, part of Adolf Hitler’s strategic blunder added this Balkan nation and Greece to the list of countries conquered by the German Army. After military …
“It was one of the most intense battles in Afghanistan.”
—President Barack Obama, Feb. 11, 2013, of the Battle of Kamdesh
In 2006, the remote and isolated Nuristan Province in …
“According to Harmon, Fredendall is a physical and moral coward.”
— Maj. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., March 2, 1943 diary entry
Like Maj. Gen. George S. Patton, Maj. Gen. …
On Dec. 6, 1946, President Harry S Truman pinned seven medals on the chest of Army Sgt. Llewellyn M. “Al” Chilson. Conspicuously absent was the nation’s highest award, the Medal …
There were never very many Tiger tanks, less than 1,400 total. They were huge (German crews scornfully called them “furniture vans”), high maintenance, a gas-guzzler even by tank standards, …
“Sixth Army must know that I am doing everything to help and to relieve it. I shall issue my orders in good time.”
—Adolf Hitler to Gen. Friedrich Paulus, commander …
The famous World War II poster showing a cargo ship sliding beneath the waves and bracketed by the phrase “LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS” was rightly interpreted as a warning against …
