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Destroyer Matchup at Kula Gulf

By Eric Hammel

The Allied invasion of New Georgia began on June 30, 1943, when a large part of the U.S. Read more

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The Japanese Swords of World War II

By Peter Suciu

Aprevalent image of the Japanese NCO or Officer in World War II is that of rushing the Allied lines with his “samurai” sword drawn, swinging in the air. Read more

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From Raw Recruit to Seasoned Trooper

By Eric Niderost

Robert Morris Peck was strolling the streets of Cincinnati one brisk November day when a yellow poster outside a boarding house caught his eye. Read more

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Heliborne Enhanced Edition

By Joseph Luster

Developer and publisher Klabater’s Heliborne first took to the skies back in 2017, eventually paving the way for an enhanced edition. Read more

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Spiderling Studios first launched physics building war game Besiege on Steam in February 2020, bringing with it plenty of ways to challenge both the computer and likeminded players in simulation combat. Read more

Advancing past a knocked-out Mk IV panzer, an American infantry patrol picks its way through the rubble of a Normandy village, wrecked during the Operation Cobra bombings. Cobra was launched to break through the second line of German defenses and regain the momentum lost after the initial Operation Overlord landings.

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Normandy Breakout

By Brian Todd Carey

Concentrated against the beaches of Normandy on June 6, Operation Overlord landed 9 army divisions plus support troops on five beaches in anticipation of a breakout across France and toward Berlin. Read more

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The Venerable General Matthew B. Ridgway

by R. Manning Ancell

Siren wailing, the jeep propelling Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker headed north from Walker’s tactical command post in Seoul. Read more

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Better Or Best: The B-17 Vs. The B-24

By Sam McGowan

One of the most frequently discussed arguments to come out of World War II is which was the “better” bomber, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress or the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Read more

British prisoners march off under German guard after the capture of Tobruk. Rommel was aided in this astonishing coup of June 1942 by knowledge of British plans intercepted from messages by the U.S. Military Attaché in Cairo.

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Colonel Bonner Fellers

By Harold E. Raugh, Jr.

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, renowned as “the Desert Fox,” was a master of mobility and maneuver warfare during the see-saw North African campaign of World War II. Read more

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Mark Stille’s ‘Midway: The Pacific War’s Most Famous Battle’

By Christopher Miskimon

Japan’s striking force sailed for Midway on May 27, 1942, a day later than planned, after some late preparations were complete. Read more

After consolidating their positions on Utah Beach and catching their breaths behind the cover of a stone wall, U.S. troops begin the long trek inland on the morning of D-day.

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Flint Whitlock’s ‘To the Last Cartridge, Book II’

By Christopher Miskimon

There are no large cities and few sizable towns in Normandy between Cherbourg and Caen. One of those towns is Sainte-Mère Église, a crossroads valuable for the invading Allied forces in June 1944. Read more

This early in the war, British soldiers still carried sword bayonets of the pre-WWI pattern. The older weapons proved invaluable for hand-to-hand fighting in Crete.

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Robert Kershaw’s ‘The Hill’

By Christopher Miskimon

Captain Stanton Johnson’s company of New Zealand infantry slowly recovered from a bombing raid by the German Luftwaffe. Read more

Hitler and several of his generals pore over a military map in this photo taken in 1940. Four years later, Hitler had become dissatisfied with many of his top commanders. When his subordinates expressed concerns for the success of the desperate gamble in the West, the Fuhrer was undeterred and ordered the Ardennes Offensive to proceed.

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Harry Yeide’s ‘Betting Against America’

By Christopher Miskimon

The United States played an important role at the end of World War I. Even during the 1930s, gripped by economic depression, America had enormous actual and potential industrial capacity. Read more

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John T. Kuehn’s ‘Strategy in Crisis’

By Christopher Miskimon

The Pacific War of 1941-1945 really stems from the Sino-Japanese conflicts of the 1930s. It most likely would not have happened had Japan not been embroiled in a war in China, which began with sporadic skirmishing and “incidents” in the early 1930s. Read more

A Coast Guard crewman aboard a landing craft is shown at lower right as his human cargo of combat troops exits toward the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day. This photo was taken while the Americans were under tremendous German fire from the bluffs visible in the distance.

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Gregory Fontenot’s ‘No Sacrifice Too Great’

By Christopher Miskimon

The U.S. 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed “Big Red One” for its distinctive shoulder patch, fought during the entirety of U.S. Read more

Though smiling for this photo, 99th Pursuit Squadron pilots Lieutenant W.V. Eagleson (in cockpit of his P-40) with Captain Lemuel R. Curtis, Lieutenant Charles B. Hall, and Lieutenant Willie Ashley and the rest of the Tuskegee Airmen were often frustsrated at being considered less capable then white pilots.

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Samuel de Korte’s ‘Tuskegee Airmen’

By Christopher Miskimon

The 332nd Fighter Group was the only segregated American fighter group to see combat service during World War II. Read more

Weary from days of combat, German infantrymen dig into an embankment during a lull in the Murmansk fighting. The Germans and Finns were nearly successful in taking the city, but dogged Red Army resistance and the harsh climate took their toll.

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Jaap Jan Brouwer’s ‘The German Way of War on the Eastern Front’

By Christopher Miskimon

The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union that began on June 22, 1941, involved three million German troops and their allies, against nearly five million Soviet soldiers. Read more

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The Battle of Cunaxa and the March of the 10,000

By Eric Niderost

Around 10 am on the morning of September 3, 401 bc Cyrus the Younger’s army was approaching the Babylonian village of Cunaxa, a tiny settlement not far from the Euphrates River. Read more

Fleming with the first movie James Bond, Sean Connery.

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Ian Fleming: Biography of the Man Behind James Bond

By Peter Kros

Ian Fleming’s biography would certainly include creating the famous British spy James Bond, but the author also led a secret life of his own. Read more