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The Civil War’s Cruelest Mission
By Al HemingwayLieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants of the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry was a melancholy man prior to his involvement in the Civil War. Read more
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The death of Paul Tibbets truly signifies the end of an era.
When Colonel Paul Tibbets and his crew departed their base on the island of Tinian in the Marianas on the morning of August 6, 1945, their Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber carried with it a weapon that would change the world. Read more
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Breaking New Ground
Dear Sir,
I have not subscribed to your magazine so far, and the reason is simple: heading down to the local magazine racks on a weekend to find out what is in store in the forthcoming issue, and being pleasantly surprised with my new find, is not a pleasure I want to deny myself. Read more
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Player’s choice: What was versus what could have been…
By Eric T. BakerThis issue’s column looks at two strategic, turn-based computer games that model the European Theater in World War II. Read more
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The Soviets carried the heavy end of the stick
By Mason B. WebbFor over 60 years, the popular misconception in the West is that the U.S. and Great Britain carried the burden of World War II, while the Soviet Union played a supporting role. Read more
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Experience modern warfare on the ground and in the air in three new games.
By Eric T. BakerA new entry in the Call of Duty series of games usually gets reviewed in WWII History, but this time Infinity Ward and Activison have changed the time period of their popular franchise. Read more
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Manipulated intelligence, faulty equipment, and inept leadership caused one of America’s worst military defeats during the Korean War.
By Al HemingwayIt was dubbed “the century’s nastiest little war” by celebrated military historian S.L.A. Marshall. The conflict to which he was referring was the Korean War, a war fought, as Secretary of State Dean Acheson observed, in the worst possible location. Read more
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SMERSH takes on the Germans.
By Eric T. BakerThe Soviet counterintelligence agency known as SMERSH is so famous for its role in Ian Flemming’s James Bond novels, that its real, historical role is comparatively unknown. Read more
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Horrific Fight on Land and Sea
By Mason B. WebbOperation Iceberg, the battle of Okinawa, which lasted from April to June 1945, was the final and largest air-sea-land battle of the Pacific campaign. Read more
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Red Air Force Pe-2
Dear Editor:
I read with interest George Tipton Wilson’s article “Red Air Force Heroines” in the September issue of WWII History. Read more
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Sergeant Martin Troy’s remains are recovered 63 years after his death.
Thousands of military personnel killed in action during World War II rest in unmarked graves, high on mountaintops, beneath the ocean amid the wreckage of sunken ships, in remote jungles and arid deserts. Read more
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Glory Days 2 is real-time strategy game for the Nintendo DS.
By Eric T. BakerNintendo’s DS has never been a platform that wargamers buy specifically for wargames. It is a system that has a lot of good games, but it doesn’t have any “killer application” wargames that would force a military hobbyist to pick one up. Read more
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ATC versus CNAC at the Hump
Dear Editor:
The article in your July 2007 issue, “Over the Hump” by Sam McGowan was an ambitious undertaking as the statistics by the ATC (Air Transport Command), U.S. Read more
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Kurt Waldheim’s diplomatic service was tainted by his Nazi past.
When former United Nations Secretary General and President of Austria Kurt Waldheim died on June 14 of this year, he had been officially barred from entry into the United States for 20 years. Read more
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Swashbucklers Of The China Skies
By Mason B. WebbDuring the dark, early days of World War II, when the Imperial Japanese army, navy, and air force were running roughshod over Asia and the Pacific, it seemed that nothing could stop them. Read more
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Three new games simulate modern-day helicopter combat.
By Eric T. BakerEnemy Engaged 2, from G2 Games for the PC, is a sequel that was seven years in the coming. Read more
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T.F. Wilson’s Memoir of the Indian Mutiny
By Al HemingwayAlthough the bloody Sepoy insurrection of 1857 was SPARK- ed by the introduction of the new Enfield rifle, the seeds of mistrust between Indian soldiers and their British colonial masters were planted long before that. Read more
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The Ohio Valley Military Society’s 15th Annual Show of Shows attracted collectors from all over the world.
By Peter SuciuOne of the finest collections of militaria ever housed in one room was on hand in Louisville, Kentucky, at the 15th annual Show of Shows. Read more
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Leaders would do well to remember Dwight Eisenhower’s warning: “Every war will astonish you.”
With the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq still overshadowing all aspects of American life, it is too early to predict what historians will say definitively about the enterprise. Read more
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Three new games feature arcade-style warfare.
By Eric T. BakerMuch more of an arcade feel this issue as we don’t have any hardcore sims on hand. Read more
