Newsletter Archive

• February 3, 2023The field marshal who surrendered
  Field Marshal Paulus at Stalingrad
• January 27, 2023Tony Vaccaro's life of war and fame
  The photographer who witnessed World War II up close
• January 20, 2023Anzio: “a vain-glorious blunder”
  The controversial Allied landings near Rome
• January 13, 2023Hidden stories of the Battle of the Bulge
  9 lesser-known facts about the battle
• January 6, 2023The American half-track
  The M3 half-track and its large family
• December 30, 2022The Browning .50 cal
  Ma deuce
• December 23, 2022The wars of George S. Patton
  The service of America’s most colorful general
• December 16, 2022To the German Commander: N U T S !
  The story of McAuliffe’s famous reply at Bastogne
• December 9, 2022Medals of Honor at Pearl Harbor
  The men who earned the highest decoration on the Day of Infamy
• December 2, 2022Planning World War II – Part 2
  The Allied war conferences
• November 25, 2022Planning World War II – Part 1
  The Allied war conferences
• November 18, 2022Kristallnacht
  The Holocaust begins
• November 4, 2022Hitler’s fireman
  The career and death of General Walter Model
• October 28, 2022The ship types of World War II
  The origins of WWII vessels
• October 21, 2022The Rangers in the South
  The U.S. Army Rangers in Africa and Italy
• October 14, 2022The sinking of PT-109
  John F. Kennedy’s shipwreck and rescue in the Pacific
• October 7, 2022Birth of the Army Rangers
  A tradition older than the nation
• September 30, 2022USS Robin, the carrier that never was
  Britain’s helping hand in America’s time of need
• September 23, 2022WW2 veteran on our tour
  Update from a special Band of Brothers Tour - Part 2
• September 9, 2022Rescuing Mussolini
  The Nazi raid to liberate the Duce
• August 26, 2022The Screaming Eagles
  The history of the 101st Airborne Division
• August 19, 2022The Dieppe Raid
  A necessary evil?
• August 12, 2022Badass paratrooper or war criminal?
  Ronald „Sparky Speirs
• August 5, 2022The "devil boats" of America
  The Patrol Torpedo Boat
• July 29, 2022The liberation of Mont-Saint-Michel
  History’s smallest liberation army
• July 22, 2022The American war hero who also saved Korea
  General Matthew Ridgway
• July 15, 2022Ushering in the jet age
  The Messerschmitt Me 262
• July 8, 2022"Survival cannot be expected"
  The Battle off Samar
• June 24, 2022Dick Winters' first battle
  Textbook tactics – Brécourt Manor
• June 17, 2022"It took airborne soldiers to do this"
  Crossing the La Fiére causeway
• June 10, 2022Cole's bayonet charge
  Going down Purple Heart Lane
• June 3, 2022Jumping into chaos
  The paratrooper jumps into Normandy
• May 27, 2022The “anti-tank crossbow”
  The PIAT
• May 20, 2022Jumping into Normandy
  The equipment and vehicles of airborne troopers
• May 13, 2022The last days of a dictator
  Mussolini's execution
• May 6, 2022What's in a code name?
  The birth and development of operation code names
• April 22, 2022The tortoise in the race
  The Churchill tank
• April 20, 2022America strikes back
  The Doolittle Raid
• April 14, 2022A heavyweight big cat
  The Sturmtiger
• April 8, 2022The man with iron will and metal teeth
  Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
• April 4, 2022Returning to normal in the post-COVID age
  
• April 1, 2022When April Fools go to war
  Pranking the enemy (or your own side)
• March 30, 2022"The greatest raid of all"
  The St Nazaire raid
• March 23, 2022The real Great Escape
  The history behind the popular war movie
• March 18, 2022The cutest military utility vehicle
  The M29 Weasel
• March 11, 2022The German workhorse: Panzer IV
  Germany's most numerous tank
• March 9, 2022With a tank and a smile
  General Jacob Devers
• March 7, 2022The princess spy
  The life and death of Noor Inayat Khan
• February 23, 2022The M4 Sherman
  The myths and reality of the iconic tank
• February 18, 2022The soundtrack of the Greatest Generation
  Glenn Miller helped the war effort with his music
• February 13, 2022Razing Monte Cassino
  The bombing of the medieval abbey in World War II
• February 9, 2022The Tiger of Malaya
  General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the legal principle named after him
• February 4, 2022Rosie the Riveter and her sisters
  The multiple identities of the famous figure
• January 28, 2022The deadliest maritime disaster in history
  The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff during Operation Hannibal
• January 26, 2022Like lightning from a clear sky
  The P-38 Lightning
• January 21, 2022A helmet full of beer
  The story of Vincent Speranza and the Airborne Beer
• January 19, 2022Becoming Führer
  Hitler's rise to power in Germany
• January 14, 2022The Griffin that didn’t fly
  The daring German false flag operation during the Battle of the Bulge
• January 12, 2022The Hitler family feud
  Hitler's nephew who turned against his uncle
• January 7, 2022The painkiller of battlefields
  Morphine
• January 5, 2022Superspy killed first at age 12
  Fritz Duquesne and the largest spy ring ever captured in America
• December 31, 2021Infantry in drag
  Cross-dressing German soldiers of WWII
• December 29, 2021The Angels of Bastogne
  The two legendary nurses of the Bulge and the doctor they had helped
• December 22, 2021A Christmas miracle in the Ardennes
  The small truce negotiated by a mother
• December 17, 2021The Battalion lost 154 on D-Day+1
  Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 5
• December 13, 2021Wojtek, the soldier bear
  The Polish army's most unusual private
• December 9, 2021The monuments of Utah Beach
  Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr. 4
• December 7, 2021Predicting Pearl Harbor
  The American commanders who predicted what might happen
• December 6, 2021The last Easy Company officer passing away
  Remembering Colonel Edward D. Shames
• December 3, 2021Wargames
  This is no ordinary sort of game, this is schooling for war!
• December 1, 2021The Utah Beach Museum
  Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.3
• November 26, 2021General "Lightning" Joe Collins
  The general who made a name for himself in two theaters
• November 24, 2021The Bazooka
  A tank-killing stovepipe
• November 19, 2021The duel of HMAS Sydney and Kormoran
  In fatal embrace
• November 17, 2021The pioneering attack on Taranto
  Italy's Pearl Harbor
• November 12, 2021Thanksgiving during World War II
  How Thanksgiving was celebrated at home and in the trenches
• November 10, 2021The carpenter who almost killed Hitler
  Georg Elser
• November 5, 2021The Kettenkrad
  The marriage of a motorcycle and a half-track
• November 3, 2021America's politics before World War II
  From neutrality to taking sides
• October 29, 2021The FG42 paratrooper rifle
  A paratrooper’s dream, an engineer’s nightmare
• October 25, 2021Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic – Issue Nr.2
  The Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Église
• October 22, 2021The medieval Band of Brothers
  The historical battle that inspired the moniker
• October 20, 2021The Bailey bridge
  A war-winning instant bridge 
• October 18, 2021Normandy sites reborn amidst the pandemic
  The sight where The Longest Day movie was shot
• October 15, 2021Old Abe, the original Screaming Eagle
  The real eagle on the 101st Airborne's insignia
• October 12, 2021The service of General Norman Cota
  The oldest man on Omaha Beach
• October 5, 2021A war crime in any language
  Translating the Nuremberg Trials
• October 1, 2021Hobart’s Funnies
  Funny killing machines
• September 28, 2021"Terrible" Terry, the bad boy general
  The rise, downfall, and second rise of General Terry Allen
• September 24, 2021The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife
  Kill or be killed
• September 21, 2021America's bloody blunder in Europe
  The battle of Hürtgen Forest
• September 17, 2021The German war cemetery of reconciliation
  The largest German war cemetery in Normandy
• September 14, 2021The .30 cal Browning
  John Browning's iconic medium machine gun
• September 10, 2021The Stahlhelm
  An iconic helmet from the 20th century
• September 7, 2021The Benelux states in World War II
  Under German occupation in Western Europe
• August 31, 2021The Falaise pocket
  The corridor of death
• August 24, 2021The Browning Automatic Rifle
  A gun looking for a job
• August 20, 2021Operation Dragoon
  The Champagne Campaign
• August 17, 2021The Jewel Voice Broadcast
  The emperor's voice and the soldiers who tried to silence it
• August 13, 2021The Dirlewanger Brigade
  The real-life manifestation of true evil?
• August 12, 2021Anne Frank
  The diarist girl in the attic
• August 12, 2021Silverplate
  Getting the A-bomb there
• August 3, 2021The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
  Germany wins gold in propaganda
• July 30, 2021The Channel Islands in WWII
  German boots on British soil
• July 27, 2021The Potsdam Conference & Declaration
  The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.
• July 20, 2021Valkyrie
  Hitler's close brush with death
• July 16, 2021The Thompson submachine gun
  From the streets of Chicago to the battlefields
• July 9, 2021James M. Gavin, the “Jumping General”
  First out of the airplane door and last in the chow line
• July 2, 2021The liberation of Cherbourg
  Capturing the first deep-water port in Normandy
• June 29, 2021The accomplishments and legacy of the Desert Fox
  Erwin Rommel: war or propaganda hero?
• June 25, 2021Deception on D-Day
  The attack of the paradummies
• June 22, 2021The M1 Garand rifle
  The greatest battle implement ever devised
• June 18, 2021The Goliath
  The remote-controlled demolition vehicle that inspired today’s unmanned ground vehicles
• June 15, 2021Germany's V-1 vengeance weapon
  The deadly doodlebug
• June 11, 2021The Crisbecq battery
  The first German position to spot the Allied fleet on D-Day
• June 8, 2021The Martyr Village of Oradour-sur-Glane
  Where only six survived the Nazi massacre
• June 4, 2021Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, Jr.
  The oldest man in the first wave on D-Day
• June 1, 2021The first four to land
  The men who first came ashore on D-Day
• May 26, 2021The “Miracle of Dunkirk”
  Operation Dynamo
• May 19, 2021Operation Bodyguard
  The grand deception around D-Day
• May 12, 2021the American “duck”
  The engineering feat that revolutionized the landing process 
• May 4, 2021Operation Magic Carpet
  The dauting task of returning the troops home after WWII
• April 28, 2021Exercise Tiger
  The dress rehearsal of D-Day gone terribly wrong
• April 16, 2021The Siege of Tobruk
  The Italo-German siege that put Commonwealth troops to the test for 241 days
• April 13, 2021Prince Philip, war hero
  A tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh with a recollection of his wartime service
• April 9, 2021The German invasion of Norway
  The battle for the iron ore and the access to the Atlantic Ocean
• April 6, 2021The Jeep
  The U.S. Army’s Go Anywhere. Do Anything vehicle and the race against time to develop it
• April 2, 2021Easter 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, 2021Pointe 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 Wall
• March 24, 2021Liberty Ships
  With the Third Reich's attack on Great Britain in 1940, the British could no longer produce ships.
• March 17, 2021The M1 helmet, the “steel pot”
  An iconic piece of American military history that saved thousands of lives
• March 5, 2021D-Day commemorations in Normandy
  Nowhere in the world are veterans honored as sincerely as in Normandy during the D-Day commemorations.