Diary of a B-17 Tail Gunner
By Allyn VannoyJust after releasing their bomb-load, flak slammed into the B-17, causing it to go out of control, falling fast. Read more
War Hospital
By Joseph LusterIt may not be set during World War II, but War Hospital fits the bill for the kind of unique experience we’re often looking for in comparable war games. Read more
Task Force Admiral Vol. 1
By Joseph LusterBeloved sim publisher Microprose Software is back with another potential hit in the upcoming Task Force Admiral – Vol. Read more
The Greek Holocaust
By Nathan N. PreferIn late 1940 and early 1941, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was concentrating on his next great conquest, the Soviet Union. Read more
Luftwaffe Attacks Civilian DC-3
On the morning of June 1, 1943, the Douglas DC-3 lifted off from the airport at Lisbon in neutral Portugal. BOAC Flight 777 or Dutch KLM Flight 2L272, as it had been designated, carried 13 passengers and its crew on a flight bound for London. Read more
A Sunlit Picture of Hell: Battle of the Somme
By O’Brien BrownEarly in the morning of July 1, 1916, a mist blanketed the lolling hills of the Somme region of northwestern France. Read more
Philip vs Edward at the Battle of Crécy
By Robert SuhrPhilip of Valois, for long have we made suit before you by embassies and all other ways which we knew to be reasonable, to the end that you should be willing to have restored unto us our right, our heritage of France, which you have long kept back and most wrongfully occupied.” Read more
The Gatling Gun: A Civil War Innovation
By A.B. FeuerRichard Gatling was born in Hertford County, NC, on December 12, 1818. His father was a prosperous farmer and inventor, and the son was destined to inherit the “invention bug.” Read more
The Battle of Leyte Gulf: Oldendorf’s Textbook “Crossing the T”
By Donald J. Roberts II & Lawrence C. SchneiderIn 1944, following the American victories in the South Pacific of operational commanders General Douglas MacArthur in western New Guinea and Admiral Chester Nimitz in the Marianas, American planners considered the next offensive against Japan’s empire. Read more
Byzantine Spies in the Byzantine–Sassanid Wars
By Arnold BlumbergByzantium, the successor state to ancient Rome, lasted over a thousand years. But it all could have been different because its first major enemy—Persia—was a fierce and determined competitor bent on the Empire’s demise. Read more
Rogers’ Rangers and the Battle of LaBarbue Creek
By John ManciniIn the fall of 1755, England and France were again at war for control of North America. The French believed that New France extended from Canada to Louisiana. Read more
Bartolomeo Colleoni’s Art of War
By Jonathan NorthBartolomeo Colleoni was a Renaissance success story. A simple mercenary, he rose from obscurity to the most important position on the Italian peninsula: commander-in-chief of the armies of Venice. Read more
Philadelphia Military Artifacts
By Eric NiderostPhiladelphia is an historic city, rich in monuments dating from America’s colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. As every schoolchild knows, the Declaration of Independence was approved in Philadephia, and the city served as the nation’s capital from 1790 to 1800. Read more
Thomas D. Howie: The Major of St. Lô
By Stan FedermanIn the late afternoon of July 18, 1944, in what was left of the main square of battle-scarred St. Read more
My Battle Up the Boot: Paul McNelis in the Italian Campaign
By Richard A. BerantyThe U.S. 85th Infantry Division was one of the Allied workhorses in Italy during World War II. Read more
The Battles of Narvik & The Norwegian Campaign
by Thomas HaymesThe German mountain troops were dug into their shallow, frozen foxholes waiting for the enemy ski troops to appear across the horizon. Read more
The Battle of Hagerstown
By Daniel MurphyLate in the evening of July 3, 1863, Major General James Ewell Brown “Jeb” Stuart was summoned to the headquarters of Robert E. Read more
The Spencer Carbine
By Kelly BellConfederate soldiers bitterly called it “that damned Yankee carbine they load on Sunday, and then fire all week.” Read more
Napoleon Bonaparte’s Battle of Marengo
By Eric NiderostOn March 17, 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte closeted himself in his study at the Tuileries Palace in Paris and ordered his private secretary, Louis Fauvelet de Bourrienne, to unroll a large map of Italy and lay it on the floor. Read more
Test Pilot Frederick Trapnell
By Mark CarlsonToday, every U.S. naval aviator who straps into a cockpit owes a debt to a man they never met and few have even heard of—Vice Adm. Read more
