Frederick the Great’s Recipe for Success
Prussian King Frederick II “The Great” inherited from his father an army ready for war. Frederick William I had entrusted the training of his infantry to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau. Read more
June World War II Shooters
By Joseph LusterCountless shooters have attempted to capture the essence of World War II in their campaigns, and each has gone about it in a slightly different way. Read more
Operation Shoestring
By Christopher MiskimonThe night of October 26, 1942, was a hellish time for the soldiers and Marines on Guadalcanal, and it was about to get worse. Read more
Naomi Parker Fraley, the real “Rosie the Riveter,” has died at the age of 96.
She was just 20 years old, wearing coveralls, her hair in a polka-dot bandanna, operating a lathe on the floor of the machine shop at the Alameda Naval Air Station in California when the photographer snapped the photograph that became a poster that became a legend. Read more
Arc System Works Brings the Trading Sim Neo Atlas 1469 to Switch
By Joseph LusterOriginally released for PS Vita in Japan, followed by a worldwide PC release on Steam, Neo Atlas 1469 is a simulation game that puts players in the role of the master of a trading company. Read more
Heliborne Breathes New Life Into Helicopter Combat Games
By Joseph LusterThere are countless ways to take to the skies in fighter jets and other similarly designed aircraft in the world of war games, but helicopters are an oft-overlooked focal point. Read more
Inside Washington’s Battle Tactics
By Christopher MiskimonThe fate of the American Revolution seemed bleak indeed in December 1776. New Jersey was on the verge of collapse with many of its residents swearing new oaths of loyalty to Great Britain. Read more
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
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
