David Thatcher, an Army Air Force gunner decorated for helping save the lives of four seriously wounded fellow crewmen in the Doolittle Rai...

This weekend I did a lot of channel surfing. Each Memorial Day, we are treated to a variety of war movies - mainly World War II movies. It w...

CAESAR Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death bu...

Today's New York Times reports the US is planning to preposition heavy weapons in new NATO countries in Eastern Europe: http://www.nyti...

From time to time I hear Americans complain about our ungrateful allies (usually the French) not paying sufficient respect to the Americans ...

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...

Tommy I WENT into a public 'ouse to get a pint o'beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, ``We serve no red-coats here.'...

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 ...

The poet T.S. Eliot described April as "the cruelest month:" "April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the de...

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...

Fifty years ago, my ship was boring holes in the South China Sea, firing projectiles into the jungles of South Vietnam at targets we couldn...

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...

Japan was in dire straits. Her navy fast disappearing. But it was not in disarray. Far from it. As US forces assaulted the Phillipines at Le...

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...

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...

USS Houston, assigned to RADM Bogen's Task Group 38.2, left Eniwetok August 30 to screen aircraft carriers against Japanese aircraft whi...