Operation Cobra: Get a Move On!
By Patrick J. ChaissonCompany B’s jeeps, armored cars, and self-propelled guns stood lined up on a narrow road, their crewmen anxious to move out. Read more
Erwin Rommel’s War Photos: Images the Desert Fox Took Himself
By Zita Ballinger FletcherThe name Field Marshal Erwin Rommel—associated with tank warfare in Europe and North Africa during World War II—might conjure up mental images of the famous “Desert Fox” riding in a panzer, reviewing maps, or commanding battles. Read more
One Classic RTS Experience and a Collection of Zombie War Shooters Make Their Respective Debuts on New Platforms
By Joseph LusterWhen you think of the classics of the real-time strategy genre, which titles come to mind? For some, it might be a staple of the 90s, like the Command & Conquer series, while others might be quicker to namecheck the likes of Warcraft or StarCraft. Read more
Battle of the Java Sea: Desperate Delaying Action
By David LippmanThe ships left just before sunset on February 26, 1942, passing out of a harbor jammed with wreckage, battered docks, fires, the stench of burning oil, and Dutch women, children, and old men—most of them relatives of the crews heading out—waving their men goodbye and good luck. Read more
Fight to Survive in Call of Duty’s Take on the Wildly Popular Battle Royale Genre
By Joseph LusterIt’s been a while since Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds first swept everyone up in the battle royale craze, and reigning champion Fortnite is still going strong after all this time. Read more
Russian Disaster at the Kalkha River
By Victor KamenirA tumultuous discussion raged in the hall of Mstislav III “The Old” Romanovich, the Grand Prince of Kiev, in March 1223. Read more
WWII Pioneers of Skip Bombing
By Gene Eric SaleckerBy September 1942, after numerous aerial strikes against the advancing Imperial Japanese Navy, the Battle of the Coral Sea in May, and numerous attacks against enemy convoys along the New Guinea coast in the summer of that year, Maj. Read more
Book Reviews: WWII’s Mission Impossible, generals in the making, and more
By Christopher MiskimonThe Winter Line was the German Army’s defensive position in Southern Italy in late 1943. Set into high mountains which dominated the surrounding terrain, numerous Allied attacks against it failed, always with heavy casualties. Read more
P-40 Fighter Pilot: Fighting for His Life
By Patrick J. ChaissonThe four Curtiss P-40 Warhawks plummeted 10,000 feet over NewGuinea’s coastline to ambush their quarry. Flight leader 1st Lt. Read more
Captured at the Bulge
By Kevin M. HymelPrivate Leon Goldberg pulled the trigger on his heavy, water-cooled M-1917 Browning machine gun and fired bursts of .30-caliber rounds into the attacking German infantry. Read more
Operation Torch: Invasion of North Africa
By Michael D. HullComing after a series of bitter defeats from France to Norway to Crete, news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II was one of the early high points of Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s leadership years. Read more
Night Battleship Action Off Guadalcanal
By David Alan JohnsonRear Admiral Willis Augustus Lee has been called, among other things, “one of the best brains in the Navy.” Read more
Rans Wright’s “Mad Georgians” at Gettysburg
On the extreme left of the Confederate attack on July 2 against the Union Forces defending Cemetery Ridge, there came a moment when Union commander George Meade’s personal safety was in danger. Read more
A D-Day Theme Park?
In the midst of numerous observations around the globe to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the most cataclysmic collective event in human history, comes a puzzling—if not downright troubling—business venture that calls into question just how future generations may perceive the events of the great conflict. Read more
D-Day Capture of Les Moulins Draw
By Kevin M. HymelTwelve Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVPs) carrying Captain William Callahan’s F Company and Captain Eccles Scott’s G Company—some 400 men—slapped the English Channel’s rough waves as they approached Omaha Beach’s Les Moulins Draw. Read more
A Time to Celebrate—And Remember
Seventy-five years ago, the European phase of the global cataclysm known as World War II came to an end. The First World War—the “Great War,” the “War to End All Wars”—had ended not with a bang but with a whimper. Read more
Slaughter at the Battle of Cannae
By Christopher MiskimonLong ranks of Carthaginian infantry stood on a dusty plain a few miles east of the ruined town of Cannae on August 2, 216 bc. Read more
The M29 Weasel: The WWII Track Vehicle Never Used as Intended
By Bob GordonThe M29 Weasel was a machine conceived by a bizarre British chemist obsessed with ice for a unit that did not exist and a mission that never occurred. Read more
Easy Company Mortarman
By Kevin M. HymelThe green light lit up the inside of the Douglas C-47 Skytrain’s fuselage, and 20 paratroopers from Easy Company’s Stick 70, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division charged out the door. Read more
Ordnance: The Piper L-4 “Eyes in the Sky”
By Arnold BlumbergDespite being caught up in the tide of isolationism prevalent duringthe interval between the world wars, the United States Army was lucky enough to have Congressional funding for the further development and expansion of its fledgling air arm, known initially in 1926 as the Army Air Corps and in 1941 renamed the Army Air Forces. Read more
