A callous disregard for the rules of war doomed the Allied prisoners on a Japanese merchantman to death at the hands of their own countrymen.
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Audie Murphy: One-Man Stand at Holtzwihr
Audie Murphy earned the Medal of Honor and lasting fame during a fierce engagement near Colmar, France, and ended the war as America’s most decorated soldier.
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Battle for Henderson Field: Lieutenant Colonel Lewis B. Puller Commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines
The 7th Marines’ tenacious defense of the hills overlooking Henderson Field secured victory at Guadalcanal.
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Battle of Princeton
Facing Maj. Gen. George Washington’s army at Assunpink Creek on January 2, 1777, Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis expected to ‘bag the fox’ the following day, but the next morning brought an unpleasant surprise–the fox had vanished.
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Royal Navy Commandos in World War II
In World War II the Royal Navy Commandos spearheaded British amphibious assaults in Europe and Asia. Although little known today, these commandos were vital to the success of many of the most important Allied landings, among them the July 10, 1943, invasion of Sicily.
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Operation Avalanche: U.S. Navy’s 4th Beach Battalion Assault on Salerno During World War II
Without the presence of the U.S. Navy’s 4th Beach Battalion on the fire-swept beaches of Salerno, Operation Avalanche might well have failed.
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The Belfort Ruse: The American Scheme That Fooled the Germans During WWI
During September 1918 an American colonel attempted an elaborate hoax to deceive the Germans as to where the U.S. First Army’s initial blow of the Great War would fall.
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Battle for Kasserine Pass: 1st Armored Division Were Ambushed by the Afrika Corps at Sidi Bou Zid
The tankers of the 1st Armored Division learned a costly lesson at a desert crossroads in Tunisia.
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Wasted Lives on Armistice Day
Did American commanders needlessly send doughboys to their deaths during the hours before the 1918 armistice went into effect?
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General Maxwell Taylor’s Mission to Vietnam
President John F. Kennedy’s tentative response to the report by General Maxwell Taylor had unintended consequences for the course of the war.