Sculpin and Squalus: Fated Sister Subs During The Pacific War

On September 14, 1938, fleet submarine USS Squalus (SS-192) was launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Read more

Hans Baur: Hitler’s Pilot Flew Führer Across Europe and History

Adolf Hitler’s wartime Armaments Minister Albert Speer was right when he termed the Führer’s pilot from 1932 to 1945, Lt. Read more

Prince Paul Karađorđević of Yugoslavia

On June 2, 1939, the last great prewar military parade of the Third Reich came rolling past the reviewing stand under Nazi eagles with swastikas in their taloned grip in front of the Berlin Technical High School. Read more

Evans Carlson Forms Carlson’s Raiders

One of America’s earliest heroes in World War II was the tall, soft-spoken son of a Connecticut Congregational minister who distinguished himself in some of the fiercest fighting in the South Pacific. Read more

What Made the Lockheed P-38 Lightning So Special?

Due largely to their use in the postwar U.S. Army Air Forces and present proliferation among the air show community, the North American P-51 Mustang is thought of by many as the most important American fighter of World War II. Read more

Operation Archery: The British Commando Raid

They came out of the sea, out of the darkness, and they brought death, terror, and destruction with them. Read more

Ernest Hemingway’s War

When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the nation’s most famous writer, a man who had built his reputation on gritty and intense novels about wars, soldiers, and “grace under pressure,” was nowhere to be seen—at least not on the home front. Read more

Civil War Spies: Timothy Webster

Spying is a dangerous game.

Even the best spies sometimes get caught, as Confederate raider John Yates Beall, “the Mosby of the Chesapeake,” learned the hard way in 1865, and the consequences are never pretty to contemplate. Read more

General Grant at Appomattox Court House

The battle of sailor’s creek was a debacle for the confederacy and the death knell of the Army of Northern Virginia. Read more

Hell in a Norwegian Fjord

Captain Odd Isaachsen Willoch knew what had to be done. The 55-year-old career Norwegian officer, commander of an aging coastal defense ship, was looking down the five-inch gun barrels and 21-inch torpedo tubes of the Wilhelm Heidkamp, a state-of-the-art German destroyer. Read more

Game Features: Toy Soldiers: Cold War

Toy Soldiers: Cold War may have once been a part of Xbox’s “Summer of Arcade,” but the war being waged inside this toy box is a cold one. Read more

The Battle of Evesham: The King Fights Back

The Battle of Lewes was over, and with it the end of the actual power of the English king, Henry III. Read more

More on Paul Allen’s Discovery of the Musashi

Paul Allen is one of the wealthiest men in the world. In fact, Forbes magazine ranks him 51st with a net worth of approximately $17.5 billion. Read more

The Pen Mightier

When Mark Twain “lit out for the territory” in July 1861 from his erstwhile role as the world’s worst Confederate ranger, he joined a small but distinguished list of future American literary greats who similarly decided, as had Twain, that they were “not rightly equipped for this awful business.” Read more

Operation Weseruebung: the German Invasion of Norway & Denmark

The German invasion of Denmark and Norway, known as Operation Weseruebung, heralded a new stage in warfare in which cooperation of air, land, and sea forces was essential for successful offensive operations. Read more

The Feud Between Stephen Crane and Teddy Roosevelt

Among the small battalion of war correspondents on hand to witness the charge up San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898, was a slender, sallow young writer named Stephen Crane. Read more

Ace Combat: Joint Assault

Ace Combat games aren’t exactly known for being precision flight sims, or sims of any kind, for that matter. Read more

The Battle of France: Furor Teutonicus & Gallic Débâcle

The year 1939 was one of massive military parades across Europe. On April 20, the largest ever was held in Berlin to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday, complete with the paratroopers, wheeled artillery, tanks, half-tracks for motorized infantry, and overhead Luftwaffe fly-bys that would mark the coming campaigns and revolutionize warfare forever. Read more

Slitherine Group’s Order of Battle: Pacific

Fans of classic-style strategy games will be delighted to know that Slitherine Ltd. has another gem on their hands; if they’re not waist-deep into playing it already, that is. Read more

The U.S. Cavalry: Boots, Saddles & Tanks

On June 15, 1930, a poised cadet from the Virginia Military Institute proudly drove his dilapidated old Ford through the gates of Fort Myer, Va., Read more