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Operation Vengeance was essentially America’s revenge against Japan for the bombing of Pearl Harbor (or at least part of the revenge). The attack on Pearl Harbor was masterminded by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.  In the spring of 1943, Yamamoto was seeking to build moral among Japanese forces following their defeat at the Battle of Guadalcanal. American […] More

Operation Mincemeat was carried out in 1943. The Allied forces had just forced German and Italian forces out of northern Africa, and were beginning plans to invade Southern Europe by striking at Sicily and Italy. Of course, the Axis were anticipating such an assault and were readying their defenses. To help conceal Allied intentions of […] More

Operation Gunnerside took place in February 1942 in the small town of German-occupied Vemork, Norway. Nine Norwegian men specially trained by the British Special Operations parachuted just outside of the town with the objective of blowing up a heavy water plant. This was considered important because heavy water was critical for the Germans to produce […] More

“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.” Franklin D. Roosevelt Japanese forces had just bombed Pearl Harbor, sinking several American ships […] More

“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” William Tecumseh Sherman General William Sherman led Union forces to victory in the Western Theater in the American Civil War. He is known for his infamous scorched earth policy during his ‘Sherman’s March to […] More

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Dwight D. Eisenhower Former President Dwight Eisenhower also served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the European Theater of […] More

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” – Jimmy Carter This quote from former President Jimmy Carter describes his views on war and conflict. Carter laments the […] More

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” – Sun Tzu This quote is from Sun Tzu from his famous text ‘The Art of War.’ The quote refers to the military strategy of making your forces appear weaker than they are to the enemy (such as deploying a small portion of […] More

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” – President Kennedy This quote from former President John F. Kennedy echoes Churchill’s well-known speech to the UK Parliament, a she claims that America will never […] More

“We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, […] More

“Lafayette, we are here.” —Colonel Charles E. Stanton Colonel Stanton said this quote when American troops first landed on the Western Front in 1917, during World War I. Up until then, America had remained neutral in the war and the conflict was being evenly fought with Britain and France on one side and Germany on […] More

“There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.” —Brigadier General Barnard Elliott Bee This quote was spoken at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 in the American Civil War. General Stonewall Jackson on the Confederate side stood strong and tall among his men, […] More