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Evolution of the Army Airborne
By Arnold BlumbergThe United States Army came late to the idea of employing airborne troops in time of war. The first U.S Read more
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The Rise and Fall of the Japanese ‘Zero’
By Mark CarlsonFor thousands of Allied airmen the most terrifying sight they ever beheld was a Mitsubishi A6M Zero bearing down on them—burnished black cowling over a snarling Sakae engine, staccato bursts flashing from two machine guns and two cannon—often the last thing they ever saw. Read more
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Bold Gamble Above Cologne
By Michael D. HullAir Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, the burly, red-haired chief of Royal Air Force Bomber Command, was an anxious man on the evening of Saturday, May 30, 1942. Read more
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Fred Korematsu
By Eric NiderostThe afternoon of May 30, 1942, found Clyde Sarah waiting for his girlfriend Ida on Estudillo Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares in San Leandro, a small town just across the bay from San Francisco. Read more
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The Sinai Air Strike: June 5, 1967
By Eric HammelIt was 7 o’clock Israeli time, three hours after dawn on Monday, June 5, 1967. The summer season’s daily thick morning mist was just lifting from the coastal areas, across the breadth of the humid Nile Delta, and along the Suez Canal. Read more
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Roman Generals: Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo
By Harold E. Raugh, Jr.Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo was probably born between 4 bc and ad 1. His younger half-sister was first the mistress and then the consort of Gaius Caesar Germanicus, better known as the Emperor Caligula. Read more
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Combat Engineers at Trois-Ponts
By Patrick J. ChaissonMajor Robert B. Yates arrived at the 1111th Engineers’ headquarters in Trois-Ponts, Belgium, around 13:30 on Monday, December 18, 1944, expecting to sit in on an ordinary staff meeting. Read more
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The Tarawa Coast-Watch Massacre Of 1942
By Peter McQuarrieOn October 15, 1942, a total of 22 men, all British subjects and all prisoners of war captured by Japanese military forces in the Gilbert Islands in the Central Pacific, were executed on Betio islet at Tarawa Atoll.. Read more
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Islam at Vienna’s Gates
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckFor nearly two long months, from July 14 to early September 1683, Vienna endured the siege from the Ottoman Empire. Read more
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10 World War II Book Reviews for Summer 2024
By Christopher Miskimon Full ReviewsPatton’s Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith and Victory in World War II (Alex Kershaw, Dutton Press, New York NY, 2024, 348 pp., Read more
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Viking Tide: Alfred the Great during the Danish Invasions
By Eric NiderostIt was the custom for King Alfred of Wessex to celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas at his royal palace at Dorchester, in the county of Dorset. Read more
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The U-2 Spy Plane’s Cold War Missions
By John D. GreshamMovies and novels about spies and espionage usually portray brave and sexy secret agents going deep behind enemy lines to grab some invaluable and potentially destabilizing piece of information. Read more
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The Sinking of Unterseeboot-85
By Erik PetkovicOn September 3, 1939, when Great Britain and France declared war on Germany, the Kriegsmarine only had 46 operational U-boats, the majority of which were used for training. Read more
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Hell Let Loose (Game Pass)
By Joseph LusterFrom games exiting Early Access to games entering Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service, we now come to another look at Hell Let Loose. Read more
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Tank Operations: European Campaign
By Joseph LusterPublisher 2tainment and the indie game devs at Linked Dimensions launched their turn-based tactical war game Tank Operations: European Campaign in Steam Early Access back in August 2019, but the time has finally come to unleash the full game. Read more
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The Battle of the Downs & the Eighty Years’ War
By Keith MiltonVice-Admiral Sir John Pennington’s jolly-boat nudged against the accommodation ladder that had been rigged aboard the Santiago, flagship of Admiral Don Rafael d’Oquendo’s Spanish fleet. Read more
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The History of Mobile Artillery
By Arnold Blumberg“It is with artillery that one makes war.” So declared Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the Great Captains of military history and a born gunner himself. Read more
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Silent Blitzkrieg: the Battle of Fort Eben Emael
By Robert Barr SmithBelgian Fort Eben Emael was as close to impregnable as modern defense works could be—or so it seemed. Read more
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The Strange Death Of Air Marshal Italo Balbo
By Blaine TaylorOn May 26, 1940, as the armies of Nazi Germany roared across prostrate France and the British Expeditionary Force was in the midst of its evacuation by sea from the European continent, Italian Army Marshal Pietro Badoglio, 69, was in the waiting room of the Palazzo Venezia in Rome. Read more
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Operation Crusader at Sidi Rezegh—Siege of Tobruk
By Thomas HaymesBy the end of the second day visibility was reduced to almost zero. Burning hulks of everything from ME-109s to M3 “Honey” tanks, Panzer IIIHs, and trucks of all descriptions littered the battleground that was once an airfield. Read more
