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The Look of Defeat
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I thought I would take a few minutes to compliment your recent choices for magazine cover photos showing German troops pictured late in the war. Read more
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Malaysian searchers locate lost aircraft wreckage.
An organization known as the Malaysia Historical Group is making a substantial contribution to the continuing effort to document the wreck sites of World War II aircraft in Malaysia, Thailand, and India. Read more
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Preparing for D-Day
By Kevin M. HymelThe American Army that stormed the beaches of Normandy was mostly green but well trained. For months men practiced climbing down rope ladders into landing craft, exiting in columns of threes, racing across a beach, assaulting pillboxes, storming bluffs, and digging foxholes. Read more
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Young People and World War II
By Flint WhitlockWe often hear that today’s “younger generation” cares nothing for the past, and that “history class” is just a synonym for “nap time.” Read more
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Tropico 4: For the Would-Be Dictator
By Joseph LusterWorld and city-building strategy titles tend to skew toward a very distinct audience. After all, not everyone wants to be saddled with the overwhelming responsibility of developing and maintaining an entire civilization. Read more
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We Got Him!
By Al HemingwayOn the evening of December 13, 2003, near a farmhouse on the outskirts of Tikrit, Iraq, Colonel James B. Read more
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Forbes vs. Wilde
The peripatetic Archibald Forbes had made his reputation as a war correspondent during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, when he bet rightly on the Prussians to win the war and attached himself accordingly to King Wilhelm I’s field headquarters. Read more
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Parallel Lives
By Al HemingwayIn the original 1960s Star Trek series, a Romulan commander says to James T. Kirk, captain of the starship Enterprise, “I regret that we meet in this way. Read more
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Unexploded bombs remind a city of its violent past.
Nearly 70 years after the conclusion of World War II, civilization has changed greatly. Communism in Eastern Europe has risen and fallen. Read more
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“Antiaircraft Destroyers”
Dear Editor:
I would like to provide some needed clarification of some points in “Divine Wind Over Okinawa” by Kelly Bell (September 2011). Read more
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U.S. entry into World War II was inevitable.
Seventy years after the attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II, the nation is once again at war. Read more
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Lawrence of Arabia’s dramatic and innovative style of irregular warfare changed the Middle East forever.
By Al HemingwayNorth Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap once told a French diplomat that his “fighting gospel” was the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Read more
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PFC Roy Morris talked sparingly about his combat experience in World War II, but he never forgot the hedgerows below Cherbourg.
Like many true combat veterans, my father didn’t talk much about the war—in his case, World War II. We knew that he had served in France and Germany with the 79th Division, the famous “Cross of Lorraine” division. Read more
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Naval War: Arctic Circle
By Joseph LusterOffering a bit of a change of pace, and location, from our typically WWII-only take on upcoming games is Paradox Interactive’s Naval War: Arctic Circle, developed by Turbo Tape Games. Read more
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Designer Stuart Black brings his considerable expertise to Enemy Front.
By Joseph LusterSo much of the World War II gaming world is dotted with iterative sequels that some measure of surprise at a new IP is to be expected. Read more
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Tactics of the War in the Pacific
By Al HemingwayMany Americans view the conflict in the Pacific during World War II as primarily a series of land battles, mainly fought in a jungle environment between the American and Japanese armies. Read more
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Underground Guerrillas
Dear Editor,
I have enclosed three photos that show without any doubt that the photo used in the “Tito’s War” article is a fake. Read more
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The USS Buchanan achieved lasting fame with another navy and under another name.
The destroyer USS Buchanan (DD-131) was struck from the U.S. Navy roll on January 8, 1941, after being delivered to the British Royal Navy four months earlier to conclude the “Destroyers for Bases Deal,” a critical element of the Lend-Lease program. Read more
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Game Features: Battlefield 3
By Joseph LusterLast time we talked about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, it was one side of the juggernaut war-gaming coin that attacked players near the end of 2011. Read more
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The Power Of The Cloth Part 2
By G. Paul GarsonIf the phrase “the clothes make the man” is true, then it is equally true that the uniform makes the soldier. Read more
