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World War II
November 2006
David P. Colley |
African American Platoons in World War II In March 1945, black volunteers forced the first breach in the U.S. Army's color barrier -- the first black soldiers officially serving shoulder to shoulder with whites in an American infantry unit since George Washington was in command of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.   |
World War II
November 2005
Eric Niderost |
China Marines: The Lost Leathernecks From 1937 to 1941, in the twilight of peace, the China Marines found themselves on the front lines of conflict. |
World War II
September 2006
Eric Niderost |
Wartime Shanghai: A Tycoon Triumphs Over the Emporer As Shanghai blazed around him, Sir Victor Sassoon led the effort to save the International Settlement from the clutches of the Japanese while keeping a careful eye on the bottom line. |
World War II
September 2007
Gene Santoro |
The Story of Two Japanese Americans Who Fought in World War II Warren Tsuneishi and Norman Ikari epitomize the 33,000 Japanese Americans who served their country during World War II. |
World War II
March 2006 |
Battle of the Bulge: Robert Walter's Baptism of Fire Swept up in the largest American campaign of the war in Europe, Robert Walter remembers the Battle of the Bulge as a series of small dramas that played themselves out in the wooded hills near Elsenborn Ridge. |
World War II
Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it. |
World War II
Williamson Murray |
Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe. |
World War II
Stanley A. Frankel |
Battle for Bougainville: Hell on Hill 700 Losing Hill 700 to the Japanese meant defeat for the American forces on Bougainville. To the men of the 37th Infantry Division, that was unthinkable. |
World War II
September 2007 |
Letters From Readers Unlikely Comrades in Arms... The Shot Heard 'Round Shanghai... A Survivor Who Spoke for Many... etc. |
World War II
February 2006
Jonathan North |
Soviet Prisoners of War: Forgotten Nazi Victims of World War II For more than 60 years, the Wehrmacht has largely escaped scrutiny for its part in the deaths of more than 3.5 million Soviet prisoners of war. |
