How a Company Made A Bra for Every Type of Figure, Including WWII Carrier Pigeons

Museum Purchases Artifact that Rewrites British Army’s Racial History

A World War I plaque indicates that Euan Lucie-Smith was the first multiracial officer commissioned in the British Army

WWII Escape Maps Might be the World’s Most Unique Fashion Statement

Wedding gowns made from escape maps are the new black

Himmler’s ‘Temple’: How the SS stole a cathedral and used it as a Nazi worship site

Obsessed with an ancient king, Heinrich Himmler hunted for a skeleton, held ghostly candlelit ceremonies in a crypt, and transformed a medieval church into a sinister SS temple

Arlington Funeral Held for Bennie G. Adkins, Medal of Honor Recipient Who Died from COVID-19

Operation Cornflakes: How the OSS Brought Allied Propaganda Straight to the Doorsteps of Germany

82nd Airborne’s Special Relationship with D-Day Village Endures Virtually Amid Pandemic

COVID may have stopped the festivities, but not the spirit of the annual D-Day commemoration

The Yank Coastwatcher Who Risked All in the Pacific

During World War II, young American cattle rancher Franklin Nash served as a member of Australia’s covert Coastwatchers

January 2021 Readers’ Letters

Readers sound off about Douglas MacArthur, the proximity fuze, the Battle of Britain and Baltimore war veterans

‘Swedish K’ Submachine Gun

Commonly known as the “Swedish K,” the Karl Gustav m/45 was popular with SOG and other U.S. special operations units for its compactness and reliability

Book Review: Pershing’s Lieutenants

Douglas Mastriano recounts the key officers who helped Black Jack Pershing lead the U.S. Army to victory in WWI

From the Grave: Miklós Radnóti’s Last Postcard

Jimmy Stewart Owed His Most Memorable Holiday Performance to World War II

The war left its mark on the renowned actor and transformed the 1946 film "It’s a Wonderful Life."

Condoms as a Weapon and Other Wild Devices of the OSS

Gen. Lee’s Statue to be Removed from the Capitol—One Historian Argues Gen. Marshall Should Replace Him

"If anyone should be standing at the elbow of George Washington in the United States Capitol Statuary Hall collection, it should be Marshall.”

Raid at Son Tay: U.S. Special Operations’ attempted rescue of POWS in 1970

The Son Tay raid became a blueprint for special operations forces, such as the 2003 rescue of Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch, captured during the Iraq War, and the 2011 Osama bin Laden raid