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Even as battles raged in Normandy and the Pacific, policymakers were looking ahead to the millions of service members who would one day come home. On June 22nd, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, soon known simply as the GI Bill. The law offered a package of benefits including education assistance, home loan guarantees, and support for finding work, all intended to ease th
On that same June weekend, United States soldiers were fighting on the ground in Italy. On June 4th, 1944, elements of the United States Fifth Army entered Rome after months of hard campaigning up the Italian peninsula, past Salerno, Cassino, and the Anzio beachhead. The capture of Italy’s capital marked the first time an Axis capital city fell into Allied hands, a powerful symbol of progress in a campaign sometimes
On a winter day on the Potomac River in 1844, the brand-new steam warship USS Princeton hosted Washington dignitaries for a demonstration cruise. The pride of the ship was a massive naval gun nicknamed “Peacemaker,” intended to showcase the Navy’s technical skill and the promise of long-range, heavy artillery at sea.
A Medal of Honor story of sacrifice and steadfast loyalty in the air war over Europe in World War II.
The B-17 was almost home when the choice arrived over the radio: bail out, or try to land a dying airplane. The long mission over Leipzig was behind them, but the bomber itself was torn open—control cables shot away, engines coughing, the fuselage peppered with holes where German fighters had raked the formation. In the cockpit, the copilot lay dead. The pilot, badly wounded, had been dragged from his seat and now dr
Comet / A34 — United Kingdom. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Cruiser Tank Challenger / A30 — United Kingdom. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
IS-3 — Soviet Union. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
M24 Chaffee — United States. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
M26 Pershing — United States. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B / Tiger II — Germany. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Type 2 Ke-To — Japan. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Type 3 Chi-Nu — Japan. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Type 4 Chi-To — Japan. Open the vehicle profile in the Trackpads Armor Archive.
Albert Leroy David — Lieutenant (junior grade) U.S. Navy World War II Off the coast of French West Africa
Alfred B Nietzel — Sergeant U.S. Army World War II Heistern, Germany
Alfred Leonard Wilson — Technician Grade Five U.S. Army World War II near Bezange la Petite, France
Almond Edward Fisher — Second Lieutenant U.S. Army World War II near Grammont, France