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June World War II Shooters

By Joseph Luster

Countless shooters have attempted to capture the essence of World War II in their campaigns, and each has gone about it in a slightly different way. Read more

A Marine on Guadalcanal waits for “chow call” while manning a trench near the front lines.

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Operation Shoestring

By Christopher Miskimon

The night of October 26, 1942, was a hellish time for the soldiers and Marines on Guadalcanal, and it was about to get worse. Read more

American soldiers ford one of Guadalcanal’s numerous streams in Action on the River by Dwight Shepler. In the Solomons, U.S. troops battled both a determined enemy in the Japanese and the harsh tropical climate of the South Pacific. Guadalcanal was the first offensive land operation undertaken by American forces in the Pacific Theater. The island was secured after seven months of fighting.

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The Ill-Fated Goettge Patrol

By John Wukovits

The summer of 1942 had brought uplifting news for the United States in the Pacific Theater. After a numbing series of setbacks, including the December 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent fall of Guam and the Philippines, the nation’s Navy had husbanded its depleted forces and, with the crucial aid of naval intelligence, halted the Japanese in the May 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea and the June Battle of Midway. Read more

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Inside Washington’s Battle Tactics

By Christopher Miskimon

The fate of the American Revolution seemed bleak indeed in December 1776. New Jersey was on the verge of collapse with many of its residents swearing new oaths of loyalty to Great Britain. Read more

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Dealers of Death

By Christopher Miskimon

Lyudmila Pavlichenko had not moved for more than 24 hours. She was a small, stout 25-year-old woman able to crawl on her belly for hours at a time. Read more

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Redemption at Hill 609

The inexperienced U.S. Army matured rapidly during the fighting in North Africa. There was no other choice. Its British allies had been immersed in World War II since 1939 and gained a hardened edge. Read more

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard boards the wreck of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), at Pearl Harbor during salvage operations in April 1942.

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“Unknown” no more.

In the last issue, I wrote about the pain of families of military persons listed as “missing in action.” Shortly after that issue was published, government sources announced that about 30 of the sailors who died when the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was attacked and sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and were buried as “unknown” have been identified. Read more

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Benito Mussolini & The Fascist March on Rome

By Blaine Taylor

On March 23, 1919, but four months after the armistice that ended the Great War—100 young toughs, ex-Italian Army war veterans, former socialist politicians, and newspapermen met in Milan’s Piazza San Sepolchro in industrial northern Italy to form a new political party. Read more

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March Gaming Spotlight

By Joseph Luster

Sometimes you just can’t get the full experience of a game from the original smartphone version, and that goes doubly so for most titles with war as the subject matter. Read more

Churchill joined in the charge of the 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.

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Young Churchill in Battle

By Christopher Miskimon

Young Winston Churchill expected to enter battle on September 1, 1898, but instead he watched as British gunboats bombarded Dervish forts. Read more

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Portugal during WW2: Covering the Azores Gap

By Norman Herz

The year 1944 dawned with America already at war for over two years. In an event not marked by history books, the 96th Navy Construction Battalion, Seabees, crossed the Atlantic from Davisville, Rhode Island, on the Abraham Lincoln, a converted banana boat escorted by two destroyers, the USS Ellis and USS Biddle. Read more