The good news for 1942 was that mobilization exceeded all expectations. Cooperation and patriotism swept the country. In the Detroit suburbs, Ford and Hudson turned from cars and trucks to bombers.
Learn about Cloyed R. Boomershine, WWII Alton Air Force ball turret gunner in the 8th Air Force, who served valiantly aboard ...
Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 (United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016). Bosworth, R J B. Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945 (United Kingdom: ...
John Frank Rozar, a graduate of Colorado Springs High School (now Palmer High School) who went on to join the Navy, was one of more than 2,400 American service members killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, ...
Putin said that at a meeting with war veterans as Russia was marking 75 years since the breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad KIROVSK (Leningrad Region), January 18. /TASS/. Russian President ...
A striking and philosophical look at the everyday citizens who helped shape the course of WWII, The War is masterfully narrated by author Burns and an assortment of Hollywood talent, including Tom ...
Pike (Empires at War), a journalist and historian who focuses on Asian military history, offers a spectrum of fresh perspectives on a war generally presented in Western terms that minimize Japan's ...
This account of my travels and experiences during four of the six and a half years I served in the British Army was written very much from memory, 45 or so years after the events, but with the ...
Staten Island, NY, June 29th, 2009 – Matrix Games ( www.matrixgames.com) and 2by3 Games ( www.2by3games.com) are proud to announce that Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 ...
On June 22, 1941, German troops invaded the Soviet Union’s territory. German planes dropped bombs on Kiev (now the capital of Ukraine), Minsk (now the capital of Belarus), Riga (now the capital of ...
He made all-state in 1941, and everyone who was in school that year still thinks of him whenever they hear "The Beer Barrel Polka." It was his signature song; every time he entered the game the band ...