Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, the infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence briefing. The reports detailed British troop positions, supply routes, ...
Jedburghs in front of a B-24 just before night takeoff. Area T, Harrington Airdrome, England, circa 1944. (National Archives) From land, sea and air, the Second World War was truly one of the first ...
Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How ...