When I first heard Donald Trump use the slogan "America First," I wondered if anyone working on his campaign was aware of the hist...

I've been watching the Republican Presidential debate. It is not a pleasant experience. I can't believe the most reasonable voice ...

May Day, 1960, CIA pilot (former Air Force officer) Francis Gary Powers, flying alone at more than 70,000 feet, was on his 27th U-2 mission,...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Germany and V-E (Victory in Europe) Day. WWII between the United States and German...

V-E (Victory in Europe) Day is usually listed in the US as May 8. But surrenders were already underway in April. April: 1,500,000 prisone...

In early May, 1945, the German Army began collapsing. Soldiers on the Western Front were surrendering right and left. Here is one story of ...

April 18, 1942, 16 US Army B-25 Medium Bombers took off from the Navy Carrier Hornet to attack the Japanese home islands. This was one of...

When we lived in Belgium and traveled in northern France, we soon learned that Frenchmen had little to say about World War II. After all, we...

The calendar says today is Veterans' Day. History says today is Armistice Day - the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, when th...

Soldiers and sailors mostly understand that success in war involves a lot of luck. Who survives and who doesn't may depend on a slight d...

Last August I published the link to an extract from Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August concerning the burning of Louvain in Belgium by Ge...

I remember 1941. My father was in the US Army Air Corps, stationed at what became McDill Air Force Base in Tampa. When we went to a movie,...

Anyone who has ever seen the movie, "A Bridge Too Far," knows something of the heroics of British, Polish and American paratrooper...

*World War II Today: 16 September 1944: Peleliu: US Marines attack towards Bloody Nose Ridge: It was already apparent that the landing...

Imagine you are dressed in your best parachute, flying over Holland enroute to a bridge over the Nederrijn at Arnhem. 70,000 years earlier, ...

This is a link to a YouTube video of a Russian Corporal being interrogated by Ukrainian military intelligence after capture near Donetsk Aug...

Matthew Halton was a Canadian reporter travelling with General Le Clerc’s tanks that were approaching Paris. During the day he was to broa...

Today's New York Times on line publishes the account of a young German soldier's experiences with the German Army in Lorraine Augu...

On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Russia mobilizes. Following events came on hot and heavy. July 31, Germany warns R...

July 28, 1914, Emperor Franz Joseph of the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia, responding to Serbia's answer to Austro-Hunga...