In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...
Eighth Army leaders, led by Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, commanding general, and Command Sgt. Maj. Robin Bolmer, senior enlisted advisor, participated in the Korean War Veterans Memorial wreath-laying ...
Warwick: Helion / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. xii, 249. Illus., maps, append., notes, biblio., index. $49,95 paper. ISBN: 1913336646 Learning to Fight in the ...
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The Bridge That Completely Changed WW2

Amidst the turbulent backdrop of the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943, a defining moment unfolded: Operation Fustian. The valiant soldiers of Brigadier Gerald Lathbury's 1st Parachute Brigade, ...
Eighth Army welcomed six U.S. and one Korean military veteran of the Korean War to Camp Humphreys, South Korea to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Korean War June 20, 2023. Family members also ...
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — Around 50 U.S. service members, veterans, and their families gathered atop a hill on this installation south of Seoul to remember a seasoned combat veteran who helped turn ...
Reports reaching here from the Libyan front reveal that Jewish transport units are playing an important role in supplying ammunition and water to the advanced British forces which are pursuing the ...
Most historians and scholars agree, the proximate start of the Second World War is Hitler's invasion of Poland on September ...
Name and Rank: James Alward Van Fleet, lieutenant general, U.S. Army. Born: March 19, 1892, at Coytesville, N.J. His father, William, took the family homesteading to Florida a year later, became first ...
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