Company A, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on th...

Found something last night while doing historical research.  It absolutely floored me to read this passage.  It could be referring to the Am...

Seventy-nine years ago today. That's a still from the animated special What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?   It was the follow-up to th...

"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!  You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have ...

This is a photo of William Overstreet Jr. of Roanoke, Virginia, taken in recent years: Photo Credit: The Roanoke Times Mr. Overstreet...

Jerry's Kids, circa 1972: You won't hear "You'll Never Walk Alone" the same way again... It might be the cinematic...

Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart having a jolly good time! Twitter user Matthew Barrett found what must be "the best opening paragraph of...

The Knight Shift today is remembering and honoring the life of an army officer from Nazi Germany.  And for good reason... Ewald-Heinrich...

My great-uncle Rob was a G.I. who served in the Pacific during World War II. But unless you were family you likely would have never known t...

It was cold as it gets, that early February morning on the North Atlantic. The USAT Dorchester was en route to Greenland, carrying nearly ...

During my lifetime, I have met six survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. Each of them Jewish. Some were at Treblinka. Some at Bergen...

Yesterday was the seventieth anniversary of the Empire of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor: the event that catapulted the United Sta...

Perhaps the most iconic photograph from the attack on Pearl Harbor: the battleship U.S.S. Arizona suffers a hit to her magazine by a Japane...

Sixty-six years after he disappeared into the prisons of the Soviet Union, new information has been discovered about the fate of Raoul Walle...

Alright, sure. Why not? :-) So I'd been working on something for Memorial Day, for a huge chunk of this past weekend and late into last...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England is visiting the United States this week. Yesterday she visited the site of the World Trade Cente...

The second bestselling nonfiction book of all time - surpassed only by the Bible - owes its publication to this fine lady... Miep Gies and ...

It was on this date in 1944 that Adolf Hitler launched Nazi Germany's final major offensive of World War II. In an act of desperation, ...

It was sixty-eight years ago today that Pearl Harbor in Hawaii came under attack from the military forces of the Empire of Japan, propelling...

From the Anne Frank House channel on YouTube ... Here's the clip's description... July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting marrie...