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Memoir ’44 Online
By Joseph LusterAs quite a few of you are no doubt aware, war and board games are a natural fit. Read more
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Slitherine Group’s Soviet Corps
By Joseph LusterThe classic strategy stylings of the Panzer General series recently made a big comeback on PC and iPad in the form of Panzer Corps, a spiritual successor that puts players in charge of the Axis armies across 26 scenarios. Read more
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The Thompson Gun’s Curious History, from World War I to World War II
By Arnold BlumbergIn 1917, when America entered the First World War, the United States Army tasked Brigadier General John T. Read more
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The Battle of the Bulge: 75+ Years On
During the Battle of the Bulge, Adolf Hitler launched his last great counteroffensive along the Western Front. From full armored divisions running on gasoline fumes to “American schools” teaching spies how to pose as Allied soldiers, Hitler used everything in his arsenal to try to turn the tide of the war. Read more
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Repeat of the 1930s?
By Flint WhitlockThe pictures are heartbreaking.
Thousands of refugees fleeing persecution by their government and possible death in their homeland, leaving all their possessions behind, spending their life savings and risking almost anything to escape an existence that had become intolerable. Read more
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Moral Dilemma
By Sam McGowanDuring the more than 60 years since the detonation of the first atomic bombs—and the only time nuclear weapons have ever been used operationally—a major debate has erupted over the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Read more
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Sergeant Anton Schmid: Saint in a Feldwebel’s Uniform
By Michael D. HullAfter the German Army’s invasion of Russia in June 1941 and the capture of the historic Lithuanian city of Vilnius late that month, Abba Kovner and a group of friends took refuge in a Dominican convent on the city’s outskirts. Read more
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Army Mules: The Beast of Burden in War
By Christopher MiskimonIn the words of a veteran of the China-Burma-India Theater, retired Technical Sergeant Edward Rock Jr., [they] “served without a word of complaint or lack of courage. Read more
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Valkyria Chronicles Remastered
By Joseph LusterSega’s Valkyria Chronicles, which originally debuted on PlayStation 3 back in 2008, is one of the better examples of the “alternate universe” World War II game. Read more
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Newly Identified Remains from the USS Oklahoma Makes News in Hawaii
By Michael HaskewOn the morning of December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Oklahoma was moored along Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor, outboard of the battleship USS Maryland. Read more
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Colonel Hiromishi Yahara’s Story at Okinawa
by John WalkerIt was Colonel Hiromishi Yahara who designed and implemented the jiykusen, or the yard-by-yard battle of attrition that cost the American forces so many casualties in the three-month battle, and he was the highest ranking officer to survive the battle and make it back to Tokyo. Read more
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Ernie Pyle: Fated at Ie Shima
By Roy Morris Jr.Ernie Pyle did not want to go to Okinawa. He was too old, too tired, and—some said—too jaded for yet another American invasion of ferocious enemy territory. Read more
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Jean Bureau, Master Gunner of France at Castillon
by William E. WelshNo single Frenchman was more responsible for the rapid victories in Normandy and Gascony that drove the English once and for all from France than Jean Bureau. Read more
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Operation Deadstick: the Capture of ‘Pegasus Bridge’
This article was provided by Martin Cherrett, whose blog, World War II Today, provides a unique way military history enthusiasts can understand and experience the Second World War. Read more
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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel & The Battle of Kasserine Pass
By Eric NiderostIn the winter of 1942-1943, the Allies had every reason to believe that they were on the verge of total victory in North Africa. Read more
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Controversial Civil War Commanders: Gideon Pillow
By Roy Morris Jr.Few Mexican War generals fought more battles than Tennessee-born Gideon Pillow—the problem was that many of those battles were with his own superiors. Read more
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Belleau Wood: Shrine of Great Deeds
By Al HemingwayIn the early morning hours of May 27, 1918, the earth trembled and the air was filled with a deafening roar as 4,000 German artillery pieces let loose a tremendous barrage on Allied lines. Read more
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Horror on Marpi Point: A Crucial Foothold in the Marianas
by John WukovitsNormally, the end of combat brings satisfaction and a sense of relief, but the Army infantrymen and Marines who slugged it out with the Japanese at Saipan experienced little of either. Read more
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The Unfortunate End to Ranald Mackenzie’s Career
By Roy Morris Jr.The young captain of engineers who discovered the dangerous bulge in the “Mule Shoe” salient at Spotsylvania, Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, would go on to make a name for himself during the Civil War and the subsequent Indian campaigns out West. Read more
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The Tokyo War Crimes Trials
By Roy Morris Jr.When the Tokyo War Crimes Trials opened in the former hilltop headquarters of the Japanese military at Ichigaya on May 3, 1946, American-born chief prosecutor Joseph Keenan faced a difficult task. Read more
