The Battle of Corregidor was a very important part of the Japanese conquest of the Philippines because of its location

Saints and Soldiers is by far the best war movie I've never heard of before.  Yes, it really is that good. 

The USS North Carolina (BB-55) was the first of the North Carolina class of battleships in the United States Navy.

Franklin Roosevelt was the 32nd President of theUnited States of America. He has been the only President of the United

In the first half of the 20th century women in the U.S. Navy weren't very common. One of the rare

The German PzB 39 was a redesigned PzB 38 without most of the disadvantages of the PzB 38.  It was a

The U-99 was a German Type VIIB U-Boat that saw service in the Nazi German Kriegsmarine during World War 2.

When I was asked to do a guest spot for WorldWar2 Facts, I wondered what people would want to hear

The USS Long Island was originally commissioned as AVG-1, reclassified to ACV-1, and finally categorized as CVE-1 (Carrier Escort) and

Who Attacked the Great Wall of China? The Defense of the Great Wall was a series of battles between the

The USS Missouri (BB-63) was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the

At the time of its creation the P-38 Lightning fighter was thought of as the most advanced plane developed by

The USS Boise was commissioned in 1938, and was amongst the last ships put the US Navy put into service

No matter how you look at it the Battle of Leyte Gulf is one, if not THE greatest naval battles in the

On 19 February 1942 the Japanese attacked the mainland of Australia for the first time consisting of two air raids

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech or address to the United States Congress on December 8th, 1941 after the Japanese attacked

Matthew B. Ridgway was born on March 3, 1895 in Virginia, United States. He graduated from West Point in 1917

In 1931, Mukden a Chinese city was part of a conflict between China and Japan, the confrontation resulted in the

The HMS Cameron (I 05), was an ex- United States Destroyer (Ex USS Welles DD 257). It was laid down

Tora! is the quintessential model for a pseudo-documentary war movie, painstakingly attempting to chronicle the events (on both sides) leading

From landmark director John Ford comes the classic They Were Expendable, starring none other than John Wayne as Lt. "Rusty" Ryan. 

Call me a sucker for some good old-fashioned old-time military aviation, but 1941's Dive Bomber is a superb and often overlooked gem

This'll be the first look at Private SNAFU. Of course you all know what SNAFU means (and if you don't

The Monuments Men (in case you were living in a cave for the last several months) is a fictionalized re-telling of