‘Loose Lips Sinks Ships’: Navy WAVES Recalls Cracking German Enigma Code
“It was an odd time. I felt it was demeaning to do housework when I knew I was capable of something else…"
‘The Things They Carried’ Author Tim O’Brien on His Life’s Work, Trauma & Confronting Mortality
His final book is one he hopes will allow his children to hear their father's voice in its pages long after he's gone
Remembering Jasenovac Concentration Camp
While the horrors of World War II concentration camps are well known, Jasenovac was considered—even by the Nazis—to have had especially hellish conditions.
Book Review: Seven Days in Hell
David O'Keefe relates the July 25, 1944, Battle of Verrières Ridge, a disastrous one for Canada's Black Watch Regiment
‘Never Forget’ Rose Created for Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Centennial
“Having a rose named Never Forget will be a reminder and help to perpetuate the message that we must never forget; that we are united with and honor all those served and sacrificed on behalf of America in times of war and armed conflict"
Short Fuzes: Why Bombs Blew Up On Fighters in the Vietnam War
When bombs began exploding prematurely over Vietnam, killing aircrews, the cause was traced to faulty fuzes, but more would die before a solution was found
‘Why Were Aircraft Markings for the U.S. Army Air Forces Only Applied on the Top Side of the Left Wing?’
A closer look at why American aircraft had distinctive markings and the purpose it served during World War II
Nikita Khrushchev Details the Cuban Missile Crisis
In his memoir, excerpted in LIFE magazine in January 1971, Khrushchev writes that the 1962 crisis was a “triumph of Soviet foreign policy and a personal triumph"
Steeped in History, the Virginia town of Chesapeake Harbors Remnants of Civil War
The town is steeped in the Confederate history so predominant in the South, but the area’s waterways made it a pivotal route on the Underground Railroad
Black Hawk’s Folly: Battle of the Sinkhole
In the last action linked to the War of 1812 Missouri Rangers cornered Sauk warriors atop a bluff overlooking the Mississippi floodplain
MiG Buster: A Closer Look at the Mark 22 Autoloading Cannon
The Mark 22 achieved the only successful downing of an enemy aircraft by naval gunfire during the Vietnam War
A 99-Year-Old World War II Veteran Finally Gets His Medals
His wounds, severe enough to send him home, were listed in unit paperwork. But in the blur of wartime bureaucracy, they were lost
Disparate Justice: The 1946 Lichfield Courts-Martial
The punishments meted out in the Lichfield courts-martial of 1946 underscored the long-held belief that military justice is far from fair
Commandeered by the Navy, Plutocrat’s Maritime Plaything Went Down a Gallant Warship
After years as a plutocrat’s plaything a luxury vessel came to a violent end
Valérie André, the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat
André flew combat medevac missions in northwest Vietnam, rescuing wounded soldiers, and even parachuted into the field to treat severe casualties
