Military Replicas vs. Originals

For collectors, finding out that an item believed to be authentic is actually a fake can feel like being punched in the stomach. Read more

Who Killed Ambrose Bierce?

Besides his many proven crimes, Mexican guerrilla leader Pancho Villa was also accused in some circles of being responsible for one of the most celebrated disappearances in American history—the vanishing of controversial author-journalist Ambrose Bierce in December 1913. Read more

World War II Through The Window Of E3 2010

Though recent years have seen a bit of a back-and-forth with the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles—big changes transformed the convention into a smaller, more exclusive event, only to completely rebound—things are more or less back to normal. Read more

Fooling the Germans

After the successful invasion of North Africa in November 1942, Allied planners immediately set to work developing a strategy to deliver a new offensive blow against Nazi Germany. Read more

Remembering Our Veterans—Individually

Dear Editor:

As I sat down to write a newspaper article for Memorial Day, I wasn’t sure where to start. With recent news of our history, and in turn on our veterans, under assault by a casino at Gettysburg and Wal-Mart at The Wilderness, I wasn’t sure how to best honor our veterans for their sacrifices to this country. Read more

The United Nations has shaped the postwar world.

Sixty-five years ago, in the wake of the most catastrophic war the world had yet seen, the United Nations officially came into being on October 24, 1945. Read more

The Athens War Museum

While not a major military power today, from the time of the classical age through the Middle Ages, Greece was the center of several major military dynasties. Read more

Harry Truman’s Military Carrer

When people mention President Harry S. Truman, they instantly think of him as the president who made the monumental decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Read more

The 1st and 2nd Cavalry Regiments Before the Civil War

It is an irony of war that the model 1857 gun-howitzer that Union artillerists used to help turn the tide at Gettysburg was the brainchild of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who championed the development of the new field piece while serving as secretary of war under Franklin Pierce. Read more

Joy Ride on a C-47!

Dear Editor:

I want offer a few words of thanks to Sam McGowan for his story and contribution to WWII History. Read more

The Triumphs And Trenches Of Medal Of Honor

Heavy is the burden on the first horse out of the gate. There’s the pressure of setting the pace; establishing the flow for those approaching from the rear. Read more

A War Department Staff Officer Remembers

In the fall of 1943, I found myself a “limited service” duty officer assigned to the Operations Division, War Department General Staff in Washington, D.C. Read more

Hitler’s Second Bismarck

Despite being ridiculed as a vain, pompous, and glory-seeking imbecile in a spate of biographies, diaries, letters, trial transcripts, and memoirs by leaders, field marshals, generals, and diplomats from both the Allies and his own Axis partners during and after the war, Joachim von Ribbentrop nevertheless was one of the premier foreign affairs practitioners of the Nazi epoch. Read more

Tanks of the Rising Sun

Imperial Japan’s first hesitant steps toward adoption of armored fighting vehicles occurred in 1925 with the creation of two company-strength tank units. Read more

Under construction with America at war, the Pentagon remains an engineering wonder.

On September 11, 1941, exactly 60 years before a terrorist attack damaged the building and changed forever the American way of life, ground was broken for the Pentagon, a five-sided office building which today houses the U.S. Read more

Jungle Warriors Against All Odds

The first Allied victory of World War I occurred when Australian volunteers occupied the German colony of northeastern New Guinea and the adjoining Admiralty Islands. Read more

Hollywood Goes Pacific

“They’re machine gunning! They’re strafing the hospital! The beasts! The slimy beasts!”

“Pearl Harbor! Most of us didn’t know what it was, let alone where it was.” Read more

The Twilight of the Gods

By the end of April 1945, two of the most feared divisions of the Waffen-SS, the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler and the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, had both been reduced in strength to little more than reinforced regiments. Read more

The Marine House

One of the world’s great military museums is also one of the newest: the National Museum of the Marine Corps (known as the “Marine House” by those who staff it), located just outside the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia––about 40 miles south of Washington, D.C. Read more

Learning from the Past

Welcome to this, our fourth issue! We have packed it like a seabag or field pack with features we are sure you will find of interest. Read more