Keeping the famed Afrika Korps supplied during its desert blitzkrieg was a logistical nightmare for the German high command. Allied forces were determined to deny Field Marshal Albert Kesselring’s fleet of huge transport planes access to North Africa.
By Vincent Cortright
Confederate Major General Richard Taylor had only 11,000 troops to oppose Major General Nathaniel P. Banks’ 25,000 Federals, but as they closed in on the town of Mansfield, La., he found a place to make a stand.
Learning quickly from its initial defeats, Hungary’s National Army won astounding victories in 1849, but it could not prevail against the combined Imperial forces of Austria and Russia.
By János B. Szabó
When the French went to war with West Africa’s Dahomey in 1892, it entered a warrior kingdom protected by ferocious fighters of both men and women.
French grenadiers advancing on the village of Magenta on June 4, 1859, unexpectedly ran into a pitched battle. Heavily outnumbered, they appealed for reinforcements, but Napoleon III replied: ‘I have nothing to send. Hold on. Block the passage.’
By Andrew Uffindell
In the first major battle of the Crimean War, Queen Victoria’s colorful little army, according to a Russian officer, won a great victory because of its manner of attack.
By T.J. Deakin
In December 1944, American prisoners on the Philippine island of Palawan were brutally murdered by their Japanese captors.
By V. Dennis Wrynn
Although he was already a popular figure in his own time, the disaster at the Little Bighorn forever secured his place in the American mind and mythology.
The 40th Bomb Group tamed America’s biggest and deadliest bombers of World War II — the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses — to help subdue the Japanese.
By Daniel Wyatt
Operation Niagara, the air effort in support of the Marine base at Khe Sanh, is usually thought of in terms of the enormous bomb loads dropped on the surrounding enemy positions, but equally critical was the aerial resupply of the base’s defenders.
