The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor ...

The First Division Museum at Cantigny continues its acclaimed "Date with History" series on Monday, Dec. 4. Guest speaker Steve Fixler will discuss the 1st Infantry Division's role in the 1943 Allied ...

In just one minute, we break down the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. Operation Husky brought American, British, and Canadian forces ashore, combining airborne drops and amphibious landings. The ...

James Holland is surely destined to become the Six Million Word Historian. He scribbles bionically fast and produces new, thick, square books about World War II seemingly nonstop. Aside from his ...

Operation Underworld is usually remembered as a secret pact between the Navy and the Mafia to secure America’s wartime docks, but its influence reached far beyond New York Harbor. At the center of ...

Operation Mincemeat chronicles the titular operation by the British intelligence during World War II to deceive the Nazi forces during the invasion of Sicily in 1943. Directed by John Madden, the ...