Newsletter Archive
- The “anti-tank crossbow”
The PIAT - Jumping into Normandy
The equipment and vehicles of airborne troopers - The last days of a dictator
Mussolini's execution - What's in a code name?
The birth and development of operation code names - The liberation of Dachau
Nothing you can put in words would adequately describe what I saw there. - The tortoise in the race
The Churchill tank - America strikes back
The Doolittle Raid - A heavyweight big cat
The Sturmtiger - The man with iron will and metal teeth
Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky - Returning to normal in the post-COVID age
- When April Fools go to war
Pranking the enemy (or your own side) - "The greatest raid of all"
The St Nazaire raid - The real Great Escape
The history behind the popular war movie - The cutest military utility vehicle
The M29 Weasel - The German workhorse: Panzer IV
Germany's most numerous tank - With a tank and a smile
General Jacob Devers - The princess spy
The life and death of Noor Inayat Khan - The M4 Sherman
The myths and reality of the iconic tank - The soundtrack of the Greatest Generation
Glenn Miller helped the war effort with his music - Razing Monte Cassino
The bombing of the medieval abbey in World War II - The Tiger of Malaya
General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the legal principle named after him - Rosie the Riveter and her sisters
The multiple identities of the famous figure - The deadliest maritime disaster in history
The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff during Operation Hannibal - Like lightning from a clear sky
The P-38 Lightning - A helmet full of beer
The story of Vincent Speranza and the Airborne Beer - Becoming Führer
Hitler's rise to power in Germany - The Griffin that didn’t fly
The daring German false flag operation during the Battle of the Bulge - The Hitler family feud
Hitler's nephew who turned against his uncle - The painkiller of battlefields
Morphine - Superspy killed first at age 12
Fritz Duquesne and the largest spy ring ever captured in America - Infantry in drag
Cross-dressing German soldiers of WWII - The Angels of Bastogne
The two legendary nurses of the Bulge and the doctor they had helped - A Christmas miracle in the Ardennes
The small truce negotiated by a mother - The Battalion lost 154 on D-Day+1
Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 5 - Wojtek, the soldier bear
The Polish army's most unusual private - The monuments of Utah Beach
Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 4 - Predicting Pearl Harbor
The American commanders who predicted what might happen - The last Easy Company officer passing away
Remembering Colonel Edward D. Shames - Wargames
This is no ordinary sort of game, this is schooling for war! - The Utah Beach Museum
Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.3 - General "Lightning" Joe Collins
The general who made a name for himself in two theaters - The Bazooka
A tank-killing stovepipe - The duel of HMAS Sydney and Kormoran
In fatal embrace - The pioneering attack on Taranto
Italy's Pearl Harbor - Thanksgiving during World War II
How Thanksgiving was celebrated at home and in the trenches - The carpenter who almost killed Hitler
Georg Elser - The Kettenkrad
The marriage of a motorcycle and a half-track - America's politics before World War II
From neutrality to taking sides - The FG42 paratrooper rifle
A paratrooper’s dream, an engineer’s nightmare - Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.2
The Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Église - The medieval Band of Brothers
The historical battle that inspired the moniker - The Bailey bridge
A war-winning instant bridge - Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic
The sight where The Longest Day movie was shot - Old Abe, the original Screaming Eagle
The real eagle on the 101st Airborne's insignia - The service of General Norman Cota
The oldest man on Omaha Beach - The story of Adidas and Puma
The factory of running shoes and rocket launchers - A war crime in any language
Translating the Nuremberg Trials - Hobart’s Funnies
Funny killing machines - "Terrible" Terry, the bad boy general
The rise, downfall, and second rise of General Terry Allen - The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife
Kill or be killed - America's bloody blunder in Europe
The battle of Hürtgen Forest - The German war cemetery of reconciliation
The largest German war cemetery in Normandy - The .30 cal Browning
John Browning's iconic medium machine gun - The Stahlhelm
An iconic helmet from the 20th century - The Benelux states in World War II
Under German occupation in Western Europe - The liberation of Paris
Is Paris burning? - The Falaise pocket
The corridor of death - The Dieppe Raid
A necessary evil? - The Browning Automatic Rifle
A gun looking for a job - Operation Dragoon
The Champagne Campaign - The Jewel Voice Broadcast
The emperor's voice and the soldiers who tried to silence it - The Dirlewanger Brigade
The real-life manifestation of true evil? - Anne Frank
The diarist girl in the attic - Silverplate
Getting the A-bomb there - The liberation of Mont-Saint-Michel
History’s smallest liberation army - The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
Germany wins gold in propaganda - The Channel Islands in WWII
German boots on British soil - The Potsdam Conference & Declaration
The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction. - Valkyrie
Hitler's close brush with death - The Thompson submachine gun
From the streets of Chicago to the battlefields - James M. Gavin, the “Jumping General”
First out of the airplane door and last in the chow line - The liberation of Cherbourg
Capturing the first deep-water port in Normandy - The accomplishments and legacy of the Desert Fox
Erwin Rommel: war or propaganda hero? - Deception on D-Day
The attack of the paradummies - The M1 Garand rifle
The greatest battle implement ever devised - The Goliath
The remote-controlled demolition vehicle that inspired today’s unmanned ground vehicles - Germany's V-1 vengeance weapon
The deadly doodlebug - The Crisbecq battery
The first German position to spot the Allied fleet on D-Day - The Martyr Village of Oradour-sur-Glane
Where only six survived the Nazi massacre - Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, Jr.
The oldest man in the first wave on D-Day - The first four to land
The men who first came ashore on D-Day - The “Miracle of Dunkirk”
Operation Dynamo - Operation Bodyguard
The grand deception around D-Day - the American “duck”
The engineering feat that revolutionized the landing process - Operation Magic Carpet
The dauting task of returning the troops home after WWII - Exercise Tiger
The dress rehearsal of D-Day gone terribly wrong - Lord Mountbatten
The controversial and pompous life of Great Britain’s royal statesman and naval officer - The Siege of Tobruk
The Italo-German siege that put Commonwealth troops to the test for 241 days - Prince Philip, war hero
A tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh with a recollection of his wartime service - The German invasion of Norway
The battle for the iron ore and the access to the Atlantic Ocean
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