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The Red Arrows in Green Hell
By Mason B. WebbDuring the whole of the Pacific campaign, no single mission was more difficult or challenging than the mission assigned to a unit of American GIs in New Guinea. Read more
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The 761st Tank Battalion
Dear Editor:
I wish to commend you for your recent article in the April/May issue on the 761st Tank Battalion. As the first African American armored unit in the history of the U.S. Read more
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A rare death photo of Ernie Pyle surfaces after years in obscurity.
In February of this year, decades after his death on the Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, a photo of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle surfaced. Read more
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Revolution in the South
By Al HemingwayWhen historians discuss the American Revolution, they give scant attention to the hard fighting that occurred in the southern states. Read more
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Anne Frank’s chestnut tree is threatened by disease and the axe.
More than 60 years after her death, Anne Frank, the young girl who was a virtual prisoner in the famous “annex” as she, her family, and others hid from the Nazi Jew hunters in Amsterdam, remains an icon of optimism and belief in the triumph of the human spirit. Read more
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Get three games in one with Pacific Storm: Allies.
By Eric T. BakerSome games take a small part of WWII and try to model it very closely. Some games take the whole of the war and try to model it very broadly. Read more
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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
