April World War II Games
By Joseph LusterIt’s been a good year or so for one of the most famous military operations in World War II history. Read more
Dealers of Death
By Christopher MiskimonLyudmila Pavlichenko had not moved for more than 24 hours. She was a small, stout 25-year-old woman able to crawl on her belly for hours at a time. Read more
Redemption at Hill 609
The inexperienced U.S. Army matured rapidly during the fighting in North Africa. There was no other choice. Its British allies had been immersed in World War II since 1939 and gained a hardened edge. Read more
“Unknown” no more.
In the last issue, I wrote about the pain of families of military persons listed as “missing in action.” Shortly after that issue was published, government sources announced that about 30 of the sailors who died when the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was attacked and sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and were buried as “unknown” have been identified. Read more
Bastogne’s Bedsheets: The Story of Lieutenant Colonel John Hanlon
By Ken ParkerMany people who never knew John Hanlon personally may remember him as that paratrooper who took the sheets back to Bastogne. Read more
Australian Raiders & The Assault On Singapore Harbor
By John BrownHours after Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese troops landed in northern Malaya and began moving south toward Singapore. Read more
Benito Mussolini & The Fascist March on Rome
By Blaine TaylorOn March 23, 1919, but four months after the armistice that ended the Great War—100 young toughs, ex-Italian Army war veterans, former socialist politicians, and newspapermen met in Milan’s Piazza San Sepolchro in industrial northern Italy to form a new political party. Read more
March Gaming Spotlight
By Joseph LusterSometimes you just can’t get the full experience of a game from the original smartphone version, and that goes doubly so for most titles with war as the subject matter. Read more
Young Churchill in Battle
By Christopher MiskimonYoung Winston Churchill expected to enter battle on September 1, 1898, but instead he watched as British gunboats bombarded Dervish forts. Read more
Portugal during WW2: Covering the Azores Gap
By Norman HerzThe year 1944 dawned with America already at war for over two years. In an event not marked by history books, the 96th Navy Construction Battalion, Seabees, crossed the Atlantic from Davisville, Rhode Island, on the Abraham Lincoln, a converted banana boat escorted by two destroyers, the USS Ellis and USS Biddle. Read more
The Battle of Britain: Leadership and Logistics in Britain’s Skies
By Grant MatlaIt was a battle fought without armies. No rifles, no tanks, no barbed wire. In the summer of 1940, the skies above Britain served as the battlefield for the British Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe. Read more
Preview – Attentat 1942
By Joseph LusterMany of us have friends and family members who served in the military during World War II, but how intimately do we know their story? Read more
Review – Wolfenstein II: the New Colossus
By Joseph LusterWhen last we saw the mighty Captain William J. Blazkowicz, well, he wasn’t looking quite so mighty. Sure, he managed to score a major victory in the battle against the postwar alt-history Nazi regime, but he was left more or less on death’s fickle doorstep. Read more
Morale-Boosting Miracle
By Christopher MiskimonRoyal Engineer Robert Halliday was hungry. He had searched the town of Dunkirk, France, for food only to find nothing. Read more
Hitler’s blunder resulted in a devastating defeat for the German Army on the Eastern Front.
When Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941, he expected yet another in a string of spectacular victories. Read more
Operation Frantic On Eastern Front: Preview Of the Cold War
By Wil DeacEarly on the overcast afternoon of June 2, 1944, three white-starred Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses in V-formation roared over the Soviet air base at Poltava. Read more
The Memoirs of Herbert Carlton
By A.B. FeuerEditor’s note: Noted military writer Bud Feuer especially enjoys discovering first-person accounts and diaries. He found the following in “a junk shop” written in pencil on brown wrapping paper. Read more
Lost, Now Found
A few weeks ago, a surprising story was announced: the wreckage of the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58 on July 30, 1945, had been located. Read more
Military Games to Ring in the New Year
By Joseph LusterIt’s been 12 years since the original version of Stronghold 2 followed up the first game, so it’s time to pay it a return visit in the form of Stronghold 2: Steam Edition. Read more
The Great War’s Eastern Front
By Chris MiskimonRussia was imploding in October 1917. The war combined with the numerous internal stresses of the nation, culminating in a civil war and Russia’s withdrawal from the greater war. Read more
