Operation Husky: British Gen. Sir Harold Alexander and the Great Boundary Line Dispute
In his July 13, 1943 diary entry, written during Operation Husky, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., commander of the …
Land Forces
Nurse Sharon Lane Paid the Highest Price in Vietnam
Sharon Lane wrote home that she was starting the night shift soon, so she wouldn’t have to get up early. …
Operation Cartwheel
Rabaul, located on the island of New Britain, was the Imperial Japanese army and navy’s main forward operating base in …
John Gary Gertsch: Medal of Honor Recipient
They were pals in grade school. Even then, John Gary Gertsch “was looking for something,” said his friend Nick Petchel …
Book Review – Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
On June 6, 1984, as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of D-Day, a reenactment of the scaling of the …
The Girandoni Air Rifle
The alpine region of Tyrol, a borderland between Italians and Germans, has long bred skillful hunters and tough mountain warriors. …
Fiorello LaGuardia Tries to Become a General
Of all the challenges Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall tackled, arguably none was greater than dealing with …
The Virtues of Stubbornness: Mules at War
Mules don’t exist in nature. They are an artificial product of human ingenuity, and like many such products, it didn’t …
Turning Things Around: Patton Takes Over II Corps
The American debacle at the Battle of Kasserine Pass had brought the simmering command crisis of II Corps to a …
Knives at Each Other’s Throats: The Resistance Movements of Mihailović and Tito in Yugoslavia
Operation 25, the invasion of Yugoslavia, part of Adolf Hitler’s strategic blunder added this Balkan nation and Greece to the …