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Eisenhower, Marshall, and MacArthur
By Mason B. WebbOnly five modern American Army generals have ever been authorized to wear the five stars denoting the rank of General of the Army. Read more
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The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
By Al HemingwayI am happy nowhere else and in no other society, and all my wishes end, where I hope my days will end, at Monticello,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1787. Read more
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Shoot your way through World War II in three new games.
By Eric T. BakerIf you have children, there is a good chance that you also have a Wii. And if you have a Wii, you’ve probably played tennis on it, and maybe even gone fishing, but you probably have not played a war game on the console, or if you have, it may have been Medal of Honor Vanguard, previously the best war game available on the Wii. Read more
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Tragedy and Courage in a Storm-Tossed Sea
By Mason B. WebbIn mid-December 1944, between Guam and the Philippines, the greatest enemy Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey’s Third Fleet encountered was not the Japanese but a monstrous typhoon—the largest storm the U.S. Read more
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More on Patton’s Dyslexia
Dear Editor,
Please allow me to express my displeasure concerning the article in the January 2008 issue, “A Life Shaped by Dyslexia” by Jeansonne et al. Read more
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Queen Boudicca exacts her revenge against the Romans in a new Rome at War game.
By Eric T. BakerThe Roman conquest of Briton in ad 43 is modeled in the new board game from Avalanche Press, Rome at War: Queen of the Celts. Read more
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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
