On the 75th Anniversary of Midway: The Leadership and Sacrifice that Secured Victory
U.S. Navy Douglas SBD-3 “Dauntless” dive bombers from scouting squadron VS-8 from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) approaching...
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The Doolittle Raid
By Nolan Nelson One week after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt began pressing the U.S. military to immediately strike the...
The Zimmermann Telegram and America’s Entry into World War I
By Nolan Nelson On April 6 one hundred years ago, the U.S. declared war on Imperial Germany. The Zimmermann...
The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
By Nolan Nelson One enduring conspiracy theory is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Marshall and Cordell Hull had foreknowledge...
The Magnificent Infantry of WWII
By Nolan Nelson The Army deployed 65 infantry divisions for the Second World War. Each was a small town...