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The Mystery of the Bulge’s Lost Soldiers
By Mason B. WebbHe dug down to a half-rotted overshoe and tugged it free from the black soil at the bottom of the old foxhole. Read more
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Three fine books document the horror and heroism of the fight for Iwo Jima.
By Mason B. WebbIwo Jima was one of the toughest battles of World War II, and three new books provide perhaps the definitive word on that epic, month-long struggle in February and March 1945. Read more
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Hooray for Hollywood!
Dear Editor,
I enjoyed Flint Whitlock’s article on the film stars in WWII, but I think you forgot one. Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front and others) served as a medic in the Philippines in 1944-1945. Read more
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Shogun has cool, innovative mechanics.
By Eric T. BakerOne of the new classics in war-themed board games is Wallenstein by German designer Dirk Henn from Queen Games. Read more
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Heroism and Horror in the First World War
By Al HemingwayJust before 7:30 on the morning of July 1, 1916, an ear-shattering explosion shook the earth near the village of Beaumont-Hamel in France. Read more
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En route to Gallipoli, poet Rupert Brooke met a less romantic death than the one he had imagined.
Fellow poet William Butler Yeats once called Rupert Brooke “the handsomest man in England,” and few people who ever met Brooke—male or female—would have disagreed. Read more
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Battlefront, Silent Heroes, and The Burning Blue
By Eric BakerBattlefront is a new battalion-level strategy game for the PC from SSG and Matrix Games. The game engine owes a lot to SSG’s Decisive Battles engine, and Battlefront has the look of a frame that a series of games will be built on. Read more
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The late AP photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the spirit of the Marine Corps.
When U.S. Marines stormed ashore on the island of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, American involvement in World War II was in its fourth year. Read more
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Civilization IV: Warlords adds spice to combat.
By Eric T. BakerSid Meier’s Civilization IV is the preeminent strategy video game in the world. It optimizes all of the best features of the previous incarnations of the game and weds them to gameplay that was designed from the beginning to include multiplayer options. Read more
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Benedict Arnold’s Navy
By Al HemingwayWhenever the name of Benedict Arnold is mentioned, people immediately think in terms of the traitorous act he attempted to perpetrate against the fledging United States of America in 1780 by surrendering West Point, New York, to the British. Read more
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Island of Death, World War II Combat: Iwo Jima, and First Battalion
By Eric BakerThis month starts with a “What if?” board game. Island of Death: the Invasion of Malta, 1942 from Avalanche Press is only $20.00 and takes four hours at most to model one of the great “never happened” battles of World War II. Read more
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The Battle of the Atlantic
By Mason B. WebbBetween 1939 and 1945, over 72,000 Allied sailors, Navy airmen, and merchant seamen lost their lives in the Atlantic Ocean while attempting to deliver the food, weapons, and other supplies desperately needed by Britain and the Soviet Union in their titanic struggle against Nazi Germany. Read more
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Battle Off Samar
Dear Editor,
In the September 2006 issue of your magazine there is, on page 42, an article about the Battle off Samar. Read more
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In the 1940s, the American film industry rallied like never before or since to support the war effort.
By Flint WhitlockAfter Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s formal entry into World War II, isolationist sentiments in the United States were swept away and millions of men and women of all backgrounds rushed to recruiting centers to volunteer for military duty. Read more
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Rise and Fall, Cossacks II, The Star and Crescent
By Eric T. BakerAncients is a terrific wargame genre, but it is hard to hold it to the same standards of historical accuracy as genres set in more recent historical times. Read more
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No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
By Al HemingwayOn April15, 2004 in the Sunni triangle of Al Anbar Province in Iraq, a known haven for terrorists, elements of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines (code-named Warlord) were conducting search and clear operations. Read more
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This is Our War
American servicemen and women around the globe don’t have to wait months for a letter from home; they are able to share their daily lives with friends and family via e-mail. Read more
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Commandos Strike Force, Ubersoldier, and Blazing Angels
By Eric BakerCommandos Strike Force from Eidos Interactive for the PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC is a first person action game set behind the lines in Europe in 1942. Read more
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The bitter battle for Okinawa was the final land campaign of World War II in the Pacific.
By Mason B. WebbFor 82 days in the spring of 1945, a ferocious battle raged on a Pacific island called Okinawa—an island considered crucial for the planned invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. Read more
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Coast Guard Cutter Taney
Dear Editor,
I read with much interest the article concerning the US Coast Guard Cutter, Taney and its action during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941 (July 2005 WWII History), but, I have never seen an article written about the attack on Honolulu Harbor at that time. Read more
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Alvin York became the most famous of a group of U.S. doughboys who went into harm’s way to thwart a German attack on October 9, 1918.
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