Pigeons of war
In fierce fighting and deep in enemy territory, American pigeons carried life-or-death messages that radio and field phones could not. Full story
Destination Tokyo
Hollywood took Americans on the home front to war in 1943 with its action-packed tale of the submarine USS Copperfin and her crew setting out from San Francisco on a top-secret mission to bomb Japan. Full story
The battling bastards of Bataan
They were starving, sick. Many were untrained. Their weapons were obsolete. And their top general lived elsewhere. Bataan's defenders were truly on their own. Full story
Americans for Hitler
On the eve of World War II, the German American Bund insisted the Nazi salute was as American as apple pie. Full story
Smoke 'em if you got 'em
Movie stars smoked. FDR smoked. Moms and dads smoked. The tobacco business boomed like the gun business. Too bad about all those casualties. Full story
Trap with a gap
Two months after D-Day, the Allies were poised to capture two German armies near Falaise, France--if they could just cut through British-American red tape. Full story