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Donald R. Lobaugh: From Delinquent to Medal of Honor Recipient
By Richard A. BerantyDonald R. Lobaugh was a juvenile delinquent, a kid sent to reform school when he was 16 years old. Read more
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Ubisoft Montreal Tries on Something New With for Honor
By Eric T. BakerWhen you first get your hands on Ubisoft Montreal’s For Honor, you might not know quite what to make of it. Read more
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Kalypso Returns With a Beloved Real-time Strategy Series
By Eric T. BakerKalypso is back with more from the Sudden Strike series, which means we get to return to the battlefields of World War II in an updated and more realistic manner than before. Read more
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Forest of Horrors
The woods were close-planted fir trees, and the shell-bursts tore and smashed them, and the splinters from the tree bursts were like javelins in the half-light of the forest,” wrote war correspondent Ernest Hemingway of the experience of Lt. Read more
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The F-4 Phantom vs. the MiG-21: Which Was Better?
By Michael HaskewDuring the protracted air war in the skies over Vietnam, two fighter interceptor and air superiority planes emerged as the most prominent aircraft of their type. Read more
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Legendary Panzer Ace Michael Wittmann
By Michael D. HullStraddling the River Orne nine miles from the English Channel coast, the French medieval city of Caen was the focal objective of Lt. Read more
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Vladimir Peniakoff: Popski’s Private Army
By John BrownIn September 1942, two patrols of armed jeeps and trucks of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) raided the German airfield at Barce. Read more
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Leningrad & Operation Spark: Breaking the Nazi Stranglehold
By Ludwig Heinrich DyckWith the German Sixth Army in its death throes at Stalingrad in January 1943, Stavka, the Soviet High Command, sought to capitalize on the disaster by unleashing massive offensives along the entire German-Soviet front. Read more
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The Chance-Vought F4U Corsair: Whistling Death in the South Pacific
by Sam McGowanThanks to the rather far-fetched mid-1970s TV series Black Sheep Squadron, the bent-wing image of the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair is no doubt one of the most vivid of the World War II fighters in the minds of most Americans. Read more
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Kamikazes Caught on the Ground: Raid on Clark Field
By Robert F. McEniry, Lt. Col. USAF (ret.)General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander Southwest Pacific Area, kept his promise to return to the Philippine Islands when his Sixth Army under the command of Lt. Read more
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The Controversial Harry “The Breaker” Morant
By Roy Morris Jr.It is somehow fitting that the Boer War spanned the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, since the conflict itself represented both the last old-fashioned war and the first modern one. Read more
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Americans in the Royal Air Force
by David Alan JohnsonAs they boarded the train for Montreal, the two Americans tried to look as inconspicuous as possible. Read more
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Yanks in the RAF: From Eagle Squadron to 4th Fighter Group
by David Alan JohnsonThe first of the three Eagle Squadrons was formed at Church Fenton, Yorkshire, in September 1940. The idea of forming an all-American squadron in the RAF was not a wildly popular one— with either the British or the Americans. Read more
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WWII War Correspondent Ernie Pyle
By Dr. Carl Henry MarcouxErnest Taylor Pyle was born August 3, 1900, in Dana, Indiana. He came from a farm family. Read more
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The Red Army’s Bloody Clash at Izyum
By Pat McTaggartDuring the winter of 1941, both the Red Army and the German Wehrmacht experienced a terrifying bloodletting. Adolf Hitler’s seemingly invincible armies, having advanced hundreds of miles inside the Soviet Union, were slowed by the October muddy season that had turned all but a few roads into almost impassible quagmires. Read more
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The Imperial Japanese Army’s Takasago Volunteers
by Glenn BarnettWhen Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed out of Tokyo Bay after his historic visit in 1854, he left in his wake a desire among the Japanese to emulate all things Western. Read more
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Hiro Onoda’s Surrender: Fighting World War II Until 1974
By Glenn BarnettThe Japanese empire was a fine place for young Hiro Onoda. In 1939, at age 17, he hired on with a lacquerware company that posted him to Hankow (Wuhan) in Japanese-occupied China. Read more
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The Dieppe Raid: A Tragic Dress Rehearsal
By Richard RuleBy early 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was still unable to boast a single victory in the field against Germany. Read more
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Surviving the German Death March: Hazards of the 600 Mile March
By Al HemingwayOn February 6, 1945, the 10,000 POWs of Stalag Luft IV received their marching orders to move out. Read more
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Project Underworld: The U.S. Navy’s Secret Pact with the Mafia
By Gregory PedutoIn the opening months of 1942, German U-boats pushed Allied supply lines to the breaking point. In the month of January, Axis submarines claimed over 20 Allied vessels including a tanker just 60 miles off the coast of Long Island. Read more
