By Kevin Seabrooke More than 80 years after they conducted visual, sonic and radio deception against German forces during World War II, soldiers who served in the so-called “Ghost Army” received the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday, March 20, 2024. Read more The post World War II’s “Ghost Army” Awarded Congressional Gold Medals appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Duane Schultz The men who were prisoners of war during World War II paid a terrible price in the form of PTSD—post-traumatic stress disorder. Read more The post Americans Returning from German POW Camps Suffered from PTSD appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Patrick J. Chaisson The chief shuffled to his seat in the underground conference room. He sat down heavily, eyes unfocused and dreamy, while a litany of woes was read to him. Read more The post Was Hitler’s Ardennes Offensive Brilliant or Delusional? appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Christopher Miskimon Historians often compare Adolf Hitler to a gambler. He kept making risky bets that paid off time and again—until they didn’t. Read more The post The Nazi Invasion of Poland, Adolf Hitler’s First Gamble in the East appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Roy Morris, Jr. Mr. Morris is the author of seven well-received books on 19th Century American history and literature. He has served as a consultant for A&E, the History Channel, and edited a three-book series for Purdue University Press on American Civil War and post-Civil War history, journalism and literature. Read more The post The Main Civil War Generals Who Helped Define the War appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Arnold Blumberg After the Royal Navy’s traumatic departure from the Pacific Ocean in early 1942, the 4th Submarine Flotilla and its depot ship, the HMS Adamant, operated with the Eastern Fleet based at Trincomalee––a large, natural harbor located on the coast of Sri Lanka in the heart of the Indian Ocean. Read more The post British Submarine Operations in the Pacific appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Flint Whitlock His world was literally crashing down in flames around him. Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, which he had created out of nothing but his own will—an empire that he had once boasted would last for a millennium—was on fire and being torn apart by shot and shell, besieged on all sides. Read more The post Hitler’s Death in the Führerbunker appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Don Hollway In November 1455 a most extraordinary ecclesiastical court convened in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris at the behest of the French Inquisition. Read more The post Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Arnold Blumberg During World War II, after the Royal Navy’s traumatic departure from the Pacific Ocean in early 1942, the 4th Submarine Flotilla and its depot ship, the HMS Adamant, operated with the Eastern Fleet based at Trincomalee––a large, natural harbor located on the coast of Sri Lanka in the heart of the Indian Ocean. Read more The post World War II British Submarine Operations in the Pacific appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By William Lunderberg From his naval base at Tawi Tawi in the southern Philippines, Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda anxiously perused intelligence reports that might provide a clue to the objective of the next seaborne South Pacific invasion by American military in the spring of 1944. Read more The post The USS England and the Invasion of the South Pacific appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By John W. Osborn, Jr. When world war engulfed Europe for the second time in a generation, the Netherlands placed its faith in the diplomatic delusion that it could remain neutral like it had during World War I. Read more The post Dutch Debacle appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Michael Haskew, Editor For three months during the autumn and winter of 1944, the U.S. First Army was locked in a death grip with the tenacious German defenders of the Hurtgen Forest, an area of 54 square miles east of the Belgian frontier. Read more The post The Bitter Hurtgen Forest Battle appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Mason B. Webb In the heart of Pennsylvania, not far from the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg, stands the U.S. Read more The post Celebrating U.S. Army History appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By Christopher Miskimon In the late afternoon of September 17, 1862 the 7th Maine Regiment received new orders. The Battle of Antietam had raged throughout the day. Read more The post Military Heritage: New Books appeared first on Warfare History Network.| Warfare History Network
By William E. Welsh In the 15th century the great powers of medieval Europe paid talented gunsmiths to build massive bombards to batter walls and shorten the length of sieges. The introduction of bombards meant that artillery replaced mining as the surest way to breach a stronghold. Bombards were massive guns, the largest of which […]| Warfare History Network
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Bushrod Johnson found fame as a Confederate general in the Civil War. An unlikely destiny for a man who had been born in Ohio and raised as a Quaker.| Warfare History Network
