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World War II
WWII’s Freeman Field Mutiny: The Black Officers Who Took a Stand Against Segregation
World War II Fighters: America’s Lockheed P-38 Lightning
WWII’s Schwerer Gustav: The Biggest Gun Ever Fired in Combat
WWII Tanks – The M3 Grant: A Flawed but Vital Stopgap That Held the Line at a Critical Moment
The M1 Helmet: The US Military’s Protective Headgear in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam
WWII Tanks – The Panzer II: A Stopgap Tank that Turned out to be Key to the Blitzkrieg
The Deadly M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer: WWII’s Fastest Tracked Armored Fighting Vehicle
The Hawker Typhoon, One of WWII’s Most Terrifying Ground Attack Warplanes
The Brodie Helmet: Iconic Headgear of British and Commonwealth Troops in the World Wars
WWII Bombers – A-36 Apache, the Formidable P-51 Mustang’s Ground Attack Variant
The Underappreciated Curtiss P-40 Warhawk: One of WWII’s Most Important Fighters
The A15 Crusader, Britain’s Most Controversial WWII Tank
WWII’s Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, History’s Sole Rocket-Propelled Fighter
American Tanks of World War II: The M3 Stuart Light Tank
The WWII Partisan Assassination of Wilhelm Kube, Nazi Governor of Occupied Belarus
The Semovente da 75/18: Italy’s WWII Self-Propelled Gun That Became a Surprisingly Effective Tank Destroyer
WWII’s PIAT: The Anti-Tank Weapon that Launched Projectiles With a Spring
WWII’s Boulton Paul Defiant Turret Fighter: An Innovative Idea Based on Bad Assumptions
The Daimler Armoured Car: Britain’s Most Successful WWII Reconnaissance Vehicle
The Sinking of the Scharnhorst: Ending Germany’s Surface Fleet Threat in WWII
SS War Criminal Joachim Peiper Burned Hundreds of Innocents, and Was Burned to Death in His Home After WWII
The Grumman F8F Bearcat: The Pinnacle of Piston Engine Fighter Design and Technology
Edward Colquhoun Charlton Was So Courageous that the *Enemy* Recommended Him for a Victoria Cross
WWII Bombers – The Polikarpov Po-2: The Humble Biplane that Kept the Germans Awake at Night
The Underappreciated Valentine, Britain’s Most Produced WWII Tank
La Nueve: The Anarchists Who Spearheaded the Liberation of Paris in WWII
WWII Bombers: The Mitsubishi Ki-21, Japan’s Early Mainstay Bomber
WWII Bombers – The Tupolev SB: Backbone of the Soviet Air Force at War’s Start
Flying Donkey: The Polikarpov I-16, Backbone of the Soviet Air Force at the Start of WWII
WWII Fighters – The MiG-3: A Great High Altitude Interceptor in a Low Altitude War
Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Squadron: America’s WWII Black Pilots
‘The Screaming Mimi’: WWII’s Terrifying 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41 Multiple Rocket Launcher
Megastar Josephine Baker Risked Her Life for the French Resistance to Spy on the Nazis in WWII
Convoy HG 76: First Allied Victory Against Hitler’s U-boats, and Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic
The Original Black Panthers: WWII’s African-American 761st Tank Battalion
The Carro Armato M13/40: Italy’s Most Important WWII Tank
Al Blozis, the NFL All-Pro Who Gave Up Football and His Life to Fight the Nazis
Iva Toguri: The American Woman Stranded in WWII Japan Who Became ‘Tokyo Rose’
Britain’s Iconic Avro Lancaster Dropped the Most Bomb Tonnage of any WWII Bomber
E-Boat vs Motor Torpedo Boat: WWII’s Terrifying Small Craft War Within a War
WWII Fighters – The Controversial P-39 Airacobra: Derided by Western Pilots, Beloved by Soviet Flyers
Himmler’s Family After WWII: The Alternate Moral Universe of a ‘Nazi Princess’
Clark Gable Ditched Hollywood in WWII to Fight the Nazis in a B-17
WWII Tanks: The Heavily Armored Matilda II Shocked the Axis in the War’s Early Years
WWII’s M1 Bazooka: The Granddaddy of Man-Portable Rocket Launchers
When Britain Turned on its Recent WWII Ally and Destroyed an Anchored French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir
Michael Wittmann: WWII’s Deadliest Tank Ace
The StuG III: The Formidable WWII Assault Gun Turned Tank Destroyer
The Lavochkin La-7: The Best Soviet Fighter of WWII
WWII Fighters – Fiat CR.42 Falco: Italy’s Surprisingly Effective Biplane
‘KILROY WAS HERE’: World War II’s Most Viral Meme
Patton’s Transformation of II Corps: Restoring the Confidence of Defeated and Demoralized GIs
WWII Bombers: Germany’s Heinkel He 111, Backbone of the Early Blitzkrieg
WWII Fighters – Lavochkin La-5, the Fighter that Changed the Air War on the Eastern Front
WWII Battle of Los Angeles Panic: The Night LA Was Engulfed by Hysteria and Wild Antiaircraft Firing
The Forest Brothers: The Baltic States’ Anti-Soviet Guerrilla War
WWII Fighters – LaGG-3: The Disappointing Soviet Wooden Warplane
Marshal Philippe Petain: From Revered National Hero in WWI to Reviled Traitor in WWII
Women Who Should be Better Known: WWII Heroine and SOE Pioneer Lise de Baissac
The Polish No. 303 Squadron: The Battle of Britain’s Deadliest Pilots
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