Examining the American experience in the Second World War

"Etched in Lies" with Home Brew History

Check out my podcast on Frank Irgang's "Etched in Purple" with the guys at Home Brew History

Winter Warfare: Tips from the 8th Infantry Division

A February 1945 article from "The Stars and Stripes" shows how American soldiers in one infantry division adapted to winter combat conditions

War Criminal Paroled: Horace T. West and the Final Chapter of the Biscari Massacre

The post-parole service history of American soldier and war criminal Horace T. West, and the legacy of the Biscari Massacre

"Walking one-man general store"

A number of Army documents and memoirs written by infantrymen in the European Theater of Operations shed light on what combat troops carried in their pockets

Christmas Eve 1944

3rd Infantry Division machine gunner Sergeant Albert Brown describes Christmas Eve 1944 on the front