Marianas Turkey Shoot

Dear Editor:

I just finished reading David Lippman’s article on the Marianas Turkey Shoot in the March 2011 issue of WWII History magazine. Read more

World War II as a Campaign Issue?

In the recently concluded midterm elections, who could have guessed that World War II would have been a campaign issue for one of the candidates? Read more

Eisenhower’s Hatchet Man

They called him “Beetle.” He could be gruff and downright insulting at times to his subordinates. New officers joining his staff cringed when they had to go in and “meet the old man.” Read more

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes Of Stalingrad

Things were a little bit different in 2006, when developer Tripwire Interactive released the first of their Red Orchestra series, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Read more

Aschaffenberg

Dear Editor:

I read with interest the story of the Battle of Aschaffenburg (January 2011 issue). I was stationed in the village of Munster bei Dieburg in the mid to late 1980s and was in Aschaffenburg many times as it was about 15 miles away. Read more

Bodies of Japanese Casualties Discovered on Iwo Jima.

While most images of a tourist trip to Hawaii have to do with beautiful beaches, hula skirts, and great surfing, a student of history must make it a point to visit two sites, Pearl Harbor and the Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, commonly referred to as the Punchbowl because of its distinctive location within the crater of a extinct volcano in sight of modern downtown Honolulu. Read more

Nero’s Blame in the Great Fire of Rome

The image most people have of the Roman emperor Nero is of him perched at the summit of the Palatine hills, strumming his lyre while Rome is engulfed in flames. Read more

The Death of Union “Boy General” Elon Farnsworth

While newly minted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer was leading his Michigan cavalry brigade to glory at Gettysburg, fellow brigadier Elon Farnsworth, himself a native Wolverine, confronted a very different fate. Read more

The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

Major John M. Chivington, Colorado’s “fighting parson,” played a large role in the Union victory at Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, in 1862. Read more

Stalin’s Wartime Paranoia

It has long been common knowledge to most historians and followers of World War II history in the European Theater, that the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front. Read more

Making War On The Wii

Options for World War II-related gaming run pretty thick if you do the majority of it on PC. Read more

Value of World War II History

Dear Editor:

I am an eighth-grader. I am also a Boy Scout in Troop 456 in Wildwood, Missouri. I read your magazine a lot. Read more

Eileen Nearne was the war heroine next door.

To the neighbors, she was an elderly woman who lived an unassuming life, loved her cats, kept to herself, and seemed even somewhat reclusive. Read more

Revisiting the Tet Offensive

Many who remember the 1968 Tet Offensive in South Vietnam still believe that the U.S. military suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the North Vietnamese Army. Read more

Bravery in Embattled Bastogne

Shivering and stamping their feet in the snow, three American soldiers warmed their hands over a small fire at an observation post. Read more

Gettysburg in Black and White

By the 1860s, photography itself was little more than 30 years old. Photographic techniques had progressed somewhat in three decades, but the process was still lengthy and the equipment was cumbersome. Read more

When War Came Home

Unlike most civil wars, the American Civil War took place primarily in one section of the country—the South. Read more

He Was Full of Pluck!

Covering the left flank of the Union Army at Gettysburg, the hill known as Little Round Top, was heroically defended against determined Confederate attack. Read more

Trouble In The Winds

The Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941—a “Day of Infamy,” as President Franklin D. Roosevelt described it—left the American Pacific Fleet in almost total ruin, plunged the United States into World War II, and set off a controversy regarding the events that led up to the attack that is still being hotly debated. Read more

A Nation at War

It has become my nightly habit to take a half-hour walk around my Denver neighborhood, during which time I have come to notice a number of homes displaying the American flag. Read more