No one who lived through May 8th and 9th of 1945 forgot what those days felt like. The war that had consumed an…
In the closing winter of 1944, the Western Front appeared, at least on the surface, to have reached a moment of relative stability.…
The man who outsmarted the zero. The story of the Thatch weave. The Wildcat fighter trembled as bursts of cannon fire shredded its…
Winston Churchill had carefully orchestrated it. Sicily’s conquest would showcase British military excellence to the world. Montgomery, the hero of Elamagne, would capture…
If Patton didn’t move in time, the 101st Airborne would have been wiped out, not captured, not forced to surrender. Wiped out. December…
Impossible. Unmoglish. That was the word echoing through German high command. On December 19th, 1944, American General George S. Patton had just announced…
On a frozen morning in February 1945, somewhere along the snow-covered rail lines cutting through occupied Belgium, a German military convoy carrying more…
This photo of two friends seemed innocent until historians noticed a dark secret. The National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington…
The crisp October morning in Chicago brought an unexpected crowd to the Riverside estate sale. Among the curious buyers browsing through decades of…
This photo of two friends seemed innocent until historians noticed a dark secret. Dr. Natalie Chen adjusted the settings on her digital scanner…