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The German Cruiser Königsberg

When the German invasion of Norway was set in motion on April 9, 1940, much of the planning for the event had been done on a shoestring. Read more

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OSS Bugatti: Fighting Alongside the Maquis

The tempo of war planning intensified for the invasion of Europe during the early months of 1944. Finally, at daylight on June 6, 1944, Allied infantry stormed ashore along the German-held Normandy coast. Read more

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Action off Santa Cruz: Last Stand of the USS Hornet

During the early morning hours of October 26, 1942, several hours before the sun came up, Admiral William F. Read more

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Assault on Oslo: The Naval Disaster in the Drøbak Strait

The second week in April 1940 was a stormy period in the North and Norwegian Seas. The weather deteriorated during April 7, with low cloud cover and fog. Read more

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Segregation in the U.S. Military: Ruben Rivers

On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order No. 9981, which stated in part, “It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.” Read more

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The U.S. Navy in World War II: Problems with Torpedoes

Any American submarine that had made contact with a Japanese task force a year or two earlier would almost certainly not have had the success that Darter and Dace had with Admiral Kurita’s task force. Read more

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Merrill’s Maurauders: Into Myitkyina

Why, 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’

The 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

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

In 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

The 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

At 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

On 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

“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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Top Flying Tiger: General Claire Chennault

Laden 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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The Long Lance Torpedo at Guadalcanal

The 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?

If 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

While we do our best to mix it up, most of what we;
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Game Review: Days of War

GENRE: 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