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Rescue Plane Down
By Kevin M. Hymel“Awe c’mon, Mom,” Cecil Petty told his emotional mother before leaving Homer, Illinois, in February 1941. “Who knows, I might be a hero.” Read more
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Weapons: WWII PT Boats
By William F. Floyd, Jr.
Late in the day on October 24, 1944, all of the available 39 patrol torpedo (PT) boats of the U.S. Read more
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A stirring chapter of naval history steeped in controversy.
While American troops slugged it out with the Japanese on the Philippine island of Leyte, one of the greatest battles in the history of naval warfare raged far and wide in the surrounding waters. Read more
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Race to Moscow
By Victor KamenirThe troops of Germany’s Army Group Center were more than a week into a fresh offensive to capture Moscow on July 14 when they approached the historic battlefield of Borodino where the Russians delayed Napoleon’s advance on Moscow in 1812. Read more
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Peter Ortiz: OSS Operative, Undercover Hero
By Michael D. HullAlong with three comrades, one of the Marine Corps heroes is still remembered in the small town of Centron in southeastern France. Read more
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The Red Ass Squadron Goes to War
By Charles W. SasserUnlike bomber crews that went home if they survived a designated number of missions, World War II fighter pilots like Lieutenant Jim Carl, 354th Fighter Group, United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), flew until the war ended, they got shot down over enemy territory and were captured, or they died. Read more
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The final battle of the Latin Crusades was a bloody siege that resulted in the downfall of the last crusader-held territories.
By Christopher MiskimonDuring the spring 1291 an enormous Muslim host moved against Acre along the Mediterranean coast. At the time it was Christendom’s last foothold in the Holy Land, a region fought over for centuries during
the religious wars known as the Crusades. Read more
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Alexander Nevsky’s Glorious Victory
By John E. SpindlerThe mass of heavily armored crusader knights swept across the frozen surface of Lake Peipus toward the Novgorodian troops that waited anxiously on the eastern shore. Read more
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“Need reinforcements. Without them, kiss us goodbye.”
In April 1963 the U.S. Special Forces established a triangular-shaped fortified outpost at the southern end of the remote A Shau Valley in what was then the northern part of South Vietnam. Read more
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Hard Road to the Rhine
By Michael D. HullJanuary 1945—with World War II in its sixth year—found the Allied armies going on the offensive after the Battle of the Bulge, but they were still west of the Rhine and six weeks behind schedule in their advance toward Germany. Read more
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Longstreet’s Hammer Blow at Manassas
By Joshua ShepherdIn the rolling fields on the south side of the Warrenton Turnpike, the men of the 5th New York of Colonel Gouverneur K. Read more
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Clash of Giants
By Eric Niderost
On the evening of July 4, 1809, Emperor Napoleon’s Grande Armee prepared to cross a narrow waterway from Lobau Island to Marchfelt, a large, flat plain that bordered the eastern banks of the sinuous Danube River. Read more
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Putting the Cork in the Bottle at Los Negros
By Patrick J. ChaissonGeneral Douglas MacArthur gripped the rail of the light cruiser USS Phoenix as the warship bombarded shore positions on the Japanese-held island of Los Negros. Read more
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“Italy Is Ours”
By David A. NorrisDeep in a brick-lined tunnel, grenadiers of the army of Louis XIV hacked at a sturdy wooden door. Read more
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Soldiers: A Forgotten Hero
By Nathan N. PreferHe led the American drive up the New Guinea coast, took his troops ashore on Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines, and was designated by the Allied supreme commander in the Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur, to lead the planned invasion of Japan itself. Read more
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Gavin’s Sky Soldiers
By Joshua ShepherdBy mid-afternoon on September 20, 1944, the deceptively placid waters of Holland’s Waal River were wreathed in dense clouds of smoke. Read more
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Soldiers: Quanah Parker
By Mike PhiferSpread out and turn the horses north to the river,” Quanah Parker shouted to his fellow warriors. It was the late 1860s and Parker was part of a war party that had swooped down on isolated ranches and farms near Gainesville, Texas. Read more
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Three Kingdoms Return With a New Romance
By Joseph LusterRomance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the most iconic franchises in the history of strategy gaming. Read more
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Refight Aims for Warship Glory
By Joseph LusterRefight: The Last Warship is a free-to-play strategy game from Chinese developer Fantian, and it originally launched on PC via Steam Early Access back in May 2019. Read more
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From VR action to relentless zombie fighting, we’ve got a couple of unique World War II niches to explore.
By Joseph LusterWith the Blitzkrieg fast approaching the Allied front, chances of survival are slimmer than ever. It’s going to take a bold soldier with an experimental M-4 Sherman tank at his disposal to help increase those odds in the slightest and, as you may have guessed, that soldier is YOU. Read more
