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Darter & Dace at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
By David Alan JohnsonAs soon as he arrived on the bridge of the submarine USS Dace, Lt. Cmdr. Rafael C. Read more
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Merrill’s Maurauders: Into Myitkyina
by Al HemingwayWhy, with the Marauders riddled with disease and fatigue, were they given the mission to attack Myitkyina? Stilwell and Merrill had to be aware that the unit was decimated. Read more
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How do you solve a problem like Hitler’s birthplace?
It’s a plain, old, pale yellow, three-story building in a small town (fewer than 20,000 inhabitants) north of Salzburg, Austria. Yet this architecturally unremarkable building stands in the center of a recent political firestorm. Read more
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Georgy Zhukov and Russia’s ‘Great Patriotic War’
By Michael E. HaskewThe Great Patriotic War, as World War II came to be known in the Soviet Union, provided the stage upon which Marshal Georgy Zhukov achieved lasting fame. Read more
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“This is London…”: Edward R. Murrow in WWII
By Roy Morris Jr.On the evening of August 7, 1937, two neophyte radio broadcasters went to dinner together at the luxurious Adlon Hotel in Berlin, Germany. Read more
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Blood for Time: 9th Armored at Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge
By Charles GutierrezIn December 1944, the Ardennes front or “ghost front” was an area where either veteran Allied units rotated in to rest and recover from terrible combat losses or where new, untested units arrived to gather some combat experience from the minor skirmishes that would occasionally flare up. Read more
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Bavarian Berchtesgaden and Its Bunkers
By L. VanLoan NaisawaldThe swinging beams of searchlights and the wail of air raid sirens had preceded the crash of the guns. Read more
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Battle for the Ore Deposits: The Red Army vs. Nazi Germany
By Pat McTaggartAt first, it was all about the ore. Magnesium, iron, and manganese ore were the lifeblood of German industry, especially the armaments industry, which used the iron and manganese to produce steel for Hitler’s war machine. Read more
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WWII Ordnance: The Marauding Marder
By William E. WelshOn the second day of Adolf Hitler’s bold invasion of Russia in June 1941, the Germans were confronted with one of their most glaring shortcomings in weapons and armament. Read more
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A Gamble for Peace: Ellis Zacharias & the South Pacific
By Todd Raffensperger“I submit that it was the wrong decision. It was wrong on strategic grounds. And it was wrong on humanitarian grounds.” Read more
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Unnecessary Hell: The Battle of Peleliu
By Eric NiderostIn the predawn hours of September 15, 1944, the official start of the two-month Battle of Peleliu, a powerful fleet of U.S. Read more
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Top Flying Tiger: General Claire Chennault
By Michael D. HullLaden with 500-pound bombs and incendiaries, 10 Japanese twin-engine Mitsubishi Ki21 Sally bombers took off from the Hanoi airfield in Indochina on the morning of Saturday, December 20, 1941. Read more
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Adolf Hitler’s Elite Bodyguard at Mortain
By Major General Michael ReynoldsBy the morning of July 27, 1944, General Omar Bradley’s First U.S. Army had won the “Battle of the Hedgerows” in Normandy and stood ready to break out to the south. Read more
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Ernest Hemingway and the Ivy Leaguers in World War II
By Charles WhitingDuring the second week of July 1944 a young, sharp Lieutenant Goldstein of the 4th Infantry Division’s 22nd Infantry Regiment was told by his boss, Colonel Buck Lanhan, “Expect a special civilian, a big war correspondent is coming to visit us. Read more
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The Long Lance Torpedo at Guadalcanal
By David Alan JohnsonThe bogey man of the U.S. Navy during the Guadalcanal campaign was not the Zero fighter or the I-class submarine. Read more
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The Battle of Peleliu: Was it necessary?
by Eric NiderostIf Peleliu was one of the bloodiest campaigns of the Pacific Theater, it was also one of the least known until recently. Read more
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Game Review: Sebastian Frank: The Beer Hall Putsch
By Joseph LusterWhile we do our best to mix it up, most of what we; cover in these pages falls along similar folds. Read more
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Game Review: Days of War
By Joseph LusterGENRE: SHOOTER • PLATFORM: PC, PS4, XBOX ONE • PUBLISHER: DRIVEN ARTS • AVAILABLE: 2016
While we’re on the subject of crowd-funded video game efforts, which are more and more abundant these days, developer Driven Arts has a big one on their plate. Read more
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Heinrich Himmler’s New-Found Diaries
Captured by the Red Army during World War II, diaries written by Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS, lay forgotten in the vast, byzantine collections of the Russian Military Archive. Read more
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Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki: Underwater Peril at Pearl Harbor
By John PerryDuring the early hours of December 7, 1941, five midget submarinesof the Imperial Japanese Navy waited to enter Pearl Harbor, the anchorage of the U.S. Read more
