Newsletter Archive
December 6, 2024 Inside the Führerbunker: History, Architecture, and LegacyNovember 29, 2024 De Havilland Mosquito The Wooden WonderNovember 15, 2024 Inside the WWI Trenches: Warfare, Survival, and the Soldiers' Experience The dreadful birthplace of a new form of warNovember 8, 2024 The Second Battle of El Alamein The end of the beginningNovember 1, 2024 Preaching to the Other Choir Radio propaganda in World War IIOctober 25, 2024 The Sten Gun Firepower on the cheapOctober 18, 2024 John Paul Jones – Part II The Father of the U.S. NavyOctober 11, 2024 John Paul Jones The Father of the U.S. NavyOctober 4, 2024 Giants Doomed to Failure The Yamato-classSeptember 20, 2024 Hatching the Eagle The birth of the LuftwaffeSeptember 13, 2024 The End of World War II The signing of the Japanese Instrument of SurrenderAugust 30, 2024 The Battle of Westerplatte Poland's ThermopylaeAugust 23, 2024 The StuG Germany's premier not-a-tankAugust 16, 2024 Montgomery - Part II In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.August 9, 2024 Montgomery - Part I In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.August 2, 2024 "Flame all across Britain" The Petroleum Warfare DepartmentJuly 25, 2024 George C. Marshall The organizer of victoryJuly 19, 2024 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 The Butcher BirdJuly 12, 2024 Night of the Long Knives Purging dissent within the Nazi PartyJuly 5, 2024 The rank you hold The origins of rank namesJune 28, 2024 The Supreme Commander – Part II The career of Dwight D. EisenhowerJune 21, 2024 The Supreme Commander – Part I The career of Dwight D. EisenhowerJune 14, 2024 The Battle of Villers-Bocage Freezing the frontline in NormandyJune 7, 2024 The Waco CG-4 glider On silent wingsMay 31, 2024 Hunting the Bismarck – Part II The first and last voyage of the German iconMay 24, 2024 Hunting the Bismarck – Part I The first and last voyage of the German iconMay 17, 2024 Rudolf Hess – Part II The Nazi who tried to end the war single-handedlyMay 10, 2024 Rudolf Hess – Part I The Nazi who tried to end the war single-handedlyMay 3, 2024 The M8 Greyhound America's armored carMay 1, 2024 The heartbreaking photo that won the hearts and minds of Americans April 26, 2024 Yamamoto The man behind Pearl Harbor – Part IIApril 19, 2024 Yamamoto The man behind Pearl HarborApril 17, 2024 Why did the U.S. declare war on Germany in WWI? April 12, 2024 Operation Pluto (Not) Supplying D-Day with fuelApril 5, 2024 The B-17 Flying Fortress The Flying Fortress that bombed Fortress EuropeMarch 28, 2024 Chuck Yeager The first to race sound and winMarch 22, 2024 The Battle of the Beams Riding the radio wavesMarch 14, 2024 The P-51 Mustang The bombers' Little FriendMarch 8, 2024 Spring Awakening Hitler’s last offensiveMarch 1, 2024 The Medal of Honor America’s highest military decorationFebruary 23, 2024 Presidents who served - Part II Future and former presidents in the militaryFebruary 16, 2024 Presidents who served – Part I Future and former presidents in the militaryFebruary 9, 2024 Audie Murphy The most decorated American soldier of World War IIFebruary 2, 2024 The secrets of Lend-Lease Trivia about the program that kept the Allies aliveJanuary 26, 2024 To give name to the fallen The Graves Registration ServiceJanuary 19, 2024 Avro Lancaster The not-so-gentle giantJanuary 12, 2024 The war crimes of Joachim Peiper The poster boy of the Waffen-SSJanuary 5, 2024 The guns of John Browning The father of modern firearmsDecember 29, 2023 The M3 Medium Tank A good enough tank for the time beingDecember 22, 2023 800 dead on Christmas Eve The sinking of the SS LéopoldvilleDecember 15, 2023 The man who said "Nuts!" General Anthony McAuliffeDecember 8, 2023 Donald Duck goes to war Walt Disney in World War IIDecember 1, 2023 The lethal strike of Typhoon Cobra The storm that caused more damage than battleNovember 24, 2023 The Dowding system Victory by informationNovember 17, 2023 General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell The right man in the wrong place?November 10, 2023 The F4U Corsair From failure to greatnessNovember 3, 2023 The weather war Shots fired for a better forecastOctober 27, 2023 Douglas MacArthur – Part II The American CaesarOctober 20, 2023 Douglas MacArthur – Part I The American CaesarOctober 13, 2023 The Sea Lion that sank Operation SeelöweOctober 6, 2023 The Bf 109 Germany’s knife in the airSeptember 29, 2023 William Slim – from defeat to victory The finest general World War II producedSeptember 22, 2023 Feeding an army U.S. Army rations in World War II and beforeSeptember 15, 2023 Operation Market Garden A 90% successSeptember 8, 2023 900 days of starvation The siege of LeningradSeptember 1, 2023 Stories of Poland’s fall Stories true and false of the first invasion of World War IIAugust 25, 2023 The liberation of Paris Is Paris burning?August 17, 2023 “The last of the World War II heroic generals” The service of General Maxwell TaylorAugust 11, 2023 How to kill a Panzer The evolution of American tank destroyersAugust 4, 2023 The Huisnes-sur-Mer German military cemetery The mausoleum of dark secretsJuly 28, 2023 “The Army’s architect” General Leslie J. McNairJuly 21, 2023 The Cobra strikes Operation CobraJuly 14, 2023 The Battle of Castle Itter Enemies fighting side by sideJuly 7, 2023 The largest tank battle in history The Battle of KurskJune 29, 2023 The terror that lingers Post-traumatic stress disorder in warJune 23, 2023 The Old Man and War Ernest Hemingway’s wartime serviceJune 16, 2023 Just what is a “D-Day,” exactly? The origins of the phraseJune 9, 2023 Taking Pegasus Bridge The most famous glider operation of World War IIJune 2, 2023 Lord Mountbatten Shaping the British Empire, for better or worseMay 26, 2023 The Higgins boat The boat that won the warMay 19, 2023 The Dambusters Raid After me, the floodMay 12, 2023 Operation Benjamin Ensuring the appropriate resting place for Jewish American soldiersApril 28, 2023 Operation Mincemeat The ruse swallowed rod, line and sinkerApril 21, 2023 Supermarine Spitfire The British legendApril 14, 2023 The General of the Armies The career of John PershingApril 7, 2023 The Battle of Drøbak Sound Either I will be decorated or I will be court martialedMarch 31, 2023 The afterlife of a Band of Brothers Tour The story of Joseph NeriMarch 24, 2023 The Tube as a shelter How London's Underground stations saved lives during the BlitzMarch 17, 2023 General Mark Clark The controversial conqueror of RomeMarch 9, 2023 The Bari air raid Poison on the waterMarch 3, 2023 "Time will not dim the glory of their deeds." One hundred years of the American Battle Monuments CommissionFebruary 24, 2023 The B-26 Marauder The WidowmakerFebruary 17, 2023 The Cromwell tank How the jumping tank came aboutFebruary 10, 2023 The rivalry between Montgomery and Patton The unofficial race for MessinaFebruary 3, 2023 The field marshal who surrendered Field Marshal Paulus at StalingradJanuary 27, 2023 Tony Vaccaro's life of war and fame The photographer who witnessed World War II up closeJanuary 20, 2023 Anzio: “a vain-glorious blunder” The controversial Allied landings near RomeJanuary 13, 2023 Hidden stories of the Battle of the Bulge 9 lesser-known facts about the battleJanuary 6, 2023 The American half-track The M3 half-track and its large familyDecember 30, 2022 The Browning .50 cal Ma deuceDecember 23, 2022 The wars of George S. Patton The service of America’s most colorful generalDecember 16, 2022 To the German Commander: N U T S ! The story of McAuliffe’s famous reply at BastogneDecember 9, 2022 Medals of Honor at Pearl Harbor The men who earned the highest decoration on the Day of InfamyDecember 2, 2022 Planning World War II – Part 2 The Allied war conferencesNovember 25, 2022 Planning World War II – Part 1 The Allied war conferencesNovember 18, 2022 Kristallnacht The Holocaust beginsNovember 4, 2022 Hitler’s fireman The career and death of General Walter ModelOctober 28, 2022 The ship types of World War II The origins of WWII vesselsOctober 21, 2022 The Rangers in the South The U.S. Army Rangers in Africa and ItalyOctober 14, 2022 The sinking of PT-109 John F. Kennedy’s shipwreck and rescue in the PacificOctober 7, 2022 Birth of the Army Rangers A tradition older than the nationSeptember 30, 2022 USS Robin, the carrier that never was Britain’s helping hand in America’s time of needSeptember 23, 2022 WW2 veteran on our tour Update from a special Band of Brothers Tour - Part 2September 16, 2022 WW2 veteran on our tour Update from a special Band of Brothers Tour - Part 1September 9, 2022 Rescuing Mussolini The Nazi raid to liberate the DuceAugust 26, 2022 The Screaming Eagles The history of the 101st Airborne DivisionAugust 19, 2022 The Dieppe Raid A necessary evil?August 12, 2022 Badass paratrooper or war criminal? Ronald „Sparky SpeirsAugust 5, 2022 The "devil boats" of America The Patrol Torpedo BoatJuly 29, 2022 The liberation of Mont-Saint-Michel History’s smallest liberation armyJuly 22, 2022 The American war hero who also saved Korea General Matthew RidgwayJuly 15, 2022 Ushering in the jet age The Messerschmitt Me 262July 8, 2022 "Survival cannot be expected" The Battle off SamarJune 24, 2022 Dick Winters' first battle Textbook tactics – Brécourt ManorJune 17, 2022 "It took airborne soldiers to do this" Crossing the La Fiére causewayJune 10, 2022 Cole's bayonet charge Going down Purple Heart LaneJune 3, 2022 Jumping into chaos The paratrooper jumps into NormandyMay 27, 2022 The “anti-tank crossbow” The PIATMay 20, 2022 Jumping into Normandy The equipment and vehicles of airborne troopersMay 13, 2022 The last days of a dictator Mussolini's executionMay 6, 2022 What's in a code name? The birth and development of operation code namesApril 22, 2022 The tortoise in the race The Churchill tankApril 20, 2022 America strikes back The Doolittle RaidApril 14, 2022 A heavyweight big cat The SturmtigerApril 8, 2022 The man with iron will and metal teeth Marshal Konstantin RokossovskyApril 4, 2022 Returning to normal in the post-COVID age April 1, 2022 When April Fools go to war Pranking the enemy (or your own side)March 30, 2022 "The greatest raid of all" The St Nazaire raidMarch 23, 2022 The real Great Escape The history behind the popular war movieMarch 18, 2022 The cutest military utility vehicle The M29 WeaselMarch 11, 2022 The German workhorse: Panzer IV Germany's most numerous tankMarch 9, 2022 With a tank and a smile General Jacob DeversMarch 7, 2022 The princess spy The life and death of Noor Inayat KhanFebruary 23, 2022 The M4 Sherman The myths and reality of the iconic tankFebruary 18, 2022 The soundtrack of the Greatest Generation Glenn Miller helped the war effort with his musicFebruary 13, 2022 Razing Monte Cassino The bombing of the medieval abbey in World War IIFebruary 9, 2022 The Tiger of Malaya General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the legal principle named after himFebruary 4, 2022 Rosie the Riveter and her sisters The multiple identities of the famous figureJanuary 28, 2022 The deadliest maritime disaster in history The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff during Operation HannibalJanuary 26, 2022 Like lightning from a clear sky The P-38 LightningJanuary 21, 2022 A helmet full of beer The story of Vincent Speranza and the Airborne BeerJanuary 19, 2022 Becoming Führer Hitler's rise to power in GermanyJanuary 14, 2022 The Griffin that didn’t fly The daring German false flag operation during the Battle of the BulgeJanuary 12, 2022 The Hitler family feud Hitler's nephew who turned against his uncleJanuary 7, 2022 The painkiller of battlefields MorphineJanuary 5, 2022 Superspy killed first at age 12 Fritz Duquesne and the largest spy ring ever captured in AmericaDecember 31, 2021 Infantry in drag Cross-dressing German soldiers of WWIIDecember 29, 2021 The Angels of Bastogne The two legendary nurses of the Bulge and the doctor they had helpedDecember 22, 2021 A Christmas miracle in the Ardennes The small truce negotiated by a motherDecember 17, 2021 The Battalion lost 154 on D-Day+1 Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 5December 13, 2021 Wojtek, the soldier bear The Polish army's most unusual privateDecember 9, 2021 The monuments of Utah Beach Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 4December 7, 2021 Predicting Pearl Harbor The American commanders who predicted what might happenDecember 6, 2021 The last Easy Company officer passing away Remembering Colonel Edward D. ShamesDecember 3, 2021 Wargames This is no ordinary sort of game, this is schooling for war!December 1, 2021 The Utah Beach Museum Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.3November 26, 2021 General "Lightning" Joe Collins The general who made a name for himself in two theatersNovember 24, 2021 The Bazooka A tank-killing stovepipeNovember 19, 2021 The duel of HMAS Sydney and Kormoran In fatal embraceNovember 17, 2021 The pioneering attack on Taranto Italy's Pearl HarborNovember 12, 2021 Thanksgiving during World War II How Thanksgiving was celebrated at home and in the trenchesNovember 10, 2021 The carpenter who almost killed Hitler Georg ElserNovember 5, 2021 The Kettenkrad The marriage of a motorcycle and a half-trackNovember 3, 2021 America's politics before World War II From neutrality to taking sidesOctober 29, 2021 The FG42 paratrooper rifle A paratrooper’s dream, an engineer’s nightmareOctober 25, 2021 Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.2 The Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-ÉgliseOctober 22, 2021 The medieval Band of Brothers The historical battle that inspired the monikerOctober 20, 2021 The Bailey bridge A war-winning instant bridge October 18, 2021 Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic The sight where The Longest Day movie was shotOctober 15, 2021 Old Abe, the original Screaming Eagle The real eagle on the 101st Airborne's insigniaOctober 12, 2021 The service of General Norman Cota The oldest man on Omaha BeachOctober 5, 2021 A war crime in any language Translating the Nuremberg TrialsOctober 1, 2021 Hobart’s Funnies Funny killing machinesSeptember 28, 2021 "Terrible" Terry, the bad boy general The rise, downfall, and second rise of General Terry AllenSeptember 24, 2021 The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife Kill or be killedSeptember 21, 2021 America's bloody blunder in Europe The battle of Hürtgen ForestSeptember 17, 2021 The German war cemetery of reconciliation The largest German war cemetery in NormandySeptember 14, 2021 The .30 cal Browning John Browning's iconic medium machine gunSeptember 10, 2021 The Stahlhelm An iconic helmet from the 20th centurySeptember 7, 2021 The Benelux states in World War II Under German occupation in Western EuropeAugust 31, 2021 The Falaise pocket The corridor of deathAugust 27, 2021 The Dieppe Raid A necessary evil?August 24, 2021 The Browning Automatic Rifle A gun looking for a jobAugust 20, 2021 Operation Dragoon The Champagne CampaignAugust 17, 2021 The Jewel Voice Broadcast The emperor's voice and the soldiers who tried to silence itAugust 13, 2021 The Dirlewanger Brigade The real-life manifestation of true evil?August 12, 2021 Anne Frank The diarist girl in the atticAugust 12, 2021 Silverplate Getting the A-bomb thereAugust 6, 2021 The liberation of Mont-Saint-Michel History’s smallest liberation armyAugust 3, 2021 The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin Germany wins gold in propagandaJuly 30, 2021 The Channel Islands in WWII German boots on British soilJuly 27, 2021 The Potsdam Conference & Declaration The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.July 20, 2021 Valkyrie Hitler's close brush with deathJuly 16, 2021 The Thompson submachine gun From the streets of Chicago to the battlefieldsJuly 9, 2021 James M. Gavin, the “Jumping General” First out of the airplane door and last in the chow lineJuly 2, 2021 The liberation of Cherbourg Capturing the first deep-water port in NormandyJune 29, 2021 The accomplishments and legacy of the Desert Fox Erwin Rommel: war or propaganda hero?June 25, 2021 Deception on D-Day The attack of the paradummiesJune 22, 2021 The M1 Garand rifle The greatest battle implement ever devisedJune 18, 2021 The Goliath The remote-controlled demolition vehicle that inspired today’s unmanned ground vehiclesJune 15, 2021 Germany's V-1 vengeance weapon The deadly doodlebugJune 11, 2021 The Crisbecq battery The first German position to spot the Allied fleet on D-DayJune 8, 2021 The Martyr Village of Oradour-sur-Glane Where only six survived the Nazi massacreJune 4, 2021 Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, Jr. The oldest man in the first wave on D-DayJune 1, 2021 The first four to land The men who first came ashore on D-DayMay 26, 2021 The “Miracle of Dunkirk” Operation DynamoMay 19, 2021 Operation Bodyguard The grand deception around D-DayMay 12, 2021 the American “duck” The engineering feat that revolutionized the landing process May 4, 2021 Operation Magic Carpet The dauting task of returning the troops home after WWIIApril 28, 2021 Exercise Tiger The dress rehearsal of D-Day gone terribly wrongApril 16, 2021 The Siege of Tobruk The Italo-German siege that put Commonwealth troops to the test for 241 daysApril 13, 2021 Prince Philip, war hero A tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh with a recollection of his wartime serviceApril 9, 2021 The German invasion of Norway The battle for the iron ore and the access to the Atlantic OceanApril 6, 2021 The Jeep The U.S. Army’s Go Anywhere. Do Anything vehicle and the race against time to develop itApril 2, 2021 Easter in World War II During this hopeful time of the year, we would like to wish a peaceful and blessed Easter to all of our readers and subscribers.March 30, 2021 Pointe du Hoc Rangers lead the way!- Nazi Germany had been preparing for an assault since 1942, calling for the construction of the 1,900-mile-long Atlantic WallMarch 24, 2021 Liberty Ships With the Third Reich's attack on Great Britain in 1940, the British could no longer produce ships.March 17, 2021 The M1 helmet, the “steel pot” An iconic piece of American military history that saved thousands of livesMarch 5, 2021 D-Day commemorations in Normandy Nowhere in the world are veterans honored as sincerely as in Normandy during the D-Day commemorations.
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