Oh Comrades, Come Rally
October 1941. As German General Hoeppner’s panzers advance toward the capitol of the Soviet Union in October of 1941, they clash with the battered Red Army on the outskirts of Moscow at the famous Napoleonic battlefield of Borodino, where in 1812 the Russian army had turned away another invader.
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Over the Hills
Late Summer, 1756. Sergeant William Gibbs of the Independent Company of South Carolina leads a detachment of twenty soldiers and a number of Cherokee warriors, including the chief Attakullakulla, on an expedition from Fort Prince George (near present day Clemson, South Carolina) to Tomately, a Cherokee town located near Chota, the capitol of the Cherokee Nation, in what is now East Tennessee. On arrival, Gibbs was to reconnoiter the area for a new British fortification that would eventually be called Fort Loudoun. Click here for more information

Sniper!
June 16, 1944. Expecting a restful day in the midst of the 29th Division’s drive on St. Lo, Company E of the 115th moves to occupy St. Clair, only to find that an enterprising group of German Fallschirmjäger has slipped into the town through a communications trench. One German paratrooper, having holed himself up in a church steeple, was shooting any American that moved. Click here for more information

Prelude to Alamein
August 30th, 1942. In a desperate bid to destroy the buildup of forces under new British commander Bernard Law Montgomery, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launches his vaunted Afrika Korps at the southern flank of the Alamein line. Click here for more information

The Scottish Lion on Patrol
The 15th Reconnaissance Regiment of the 15th (Scottish) Division. A trio of Universal Carriers (commonly known as the Bren Carrier), patrol the fields of Normandy near the Caen front on June 30, 1944, in support of the operation that came to be known as the Battle of the Scottish Corridor. Click here for more information









Kollaa Holds!
In what was to become the rallying cry of the beleaguered Finnish army during the Winter War of 1939, Kollaa kestää, or Kollaa Holds was broadcast throughout the land as the defenders of Kollaa turned back the Russian juggernaut again and again. Click here for more information

LCVP Blues
In 1942, the United States Navy established its first amphibious training base at Solomons, Maryland, to meet the urgent demands of World War II. The base trained thousands of marines, soldiers, sailors, and coast guardsmen who saw action throughout Europe and the Pacific. Click here for more information

Abashed the Devils Stood
Sicily, 1943. The beleaguered British First Airborne clings desperately to their toehold on the Simeto River and the critical Primosole Bridge as the German First Airborne Division seeks to overrun them. Click here for more information

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