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

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

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

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

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

First off, I have to offer up a humble apology to the makers of this film, Lost Airmen of Buchenwald.  They

Wow.  Talk about a movie that was ahead of its time in its message.  Well, mostly anyway.  Halls of Montezuma follows the

You'd think that a film about developing a one-off weapon that defies all logic would be incredibly un-interesting, right?  Wrong!! The

Well, its finally happened!! Saving Private Ryan is available on Blu Ray! Awesome! I'm going to leave the gist of

When I originally reviewed The Big Red One, the original version, I found it to be lacking something in many respects.

There have been a ton of World War II documentaries made over the last, what, 62 years?  Some range from

Where do I even begin.  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is, plainly put, an excellent film that should move even the

Into The White puts us into the Scandinavian winter desert during WWII.  Two planes, German and English, have just been shot

There are your standard-issue war movies.  And then there are epic masterpieces such as Saving Private Ryan which should be

Quite frankly, this is the best, most brutal, most gut-wrenching war movie I've seen in a long, long time.  City

I didn't recall this film being promoted in any significant way, and its a damn shame.  Because Memorial Day has