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Commandos and Ghosts
By Eric T. BakerWorld War II continues to be very hot on the video game front. Commandos 3: Destination Berlin puts the player in command of an elite unit of Special Forces behind enemy lines in Europe. Read more
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The Battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Success in combat and life and death on the battlefield may often owe to the manpower, materiel, or logistics superiority of one opponent over the other. Read more
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Surigao Strait Witness
Dear Sir:
Your story in the December 2003 issue was of special interest to me as I was a witness to a part of the event. Read more
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Colonel Charles Hunter
Dear Editor,
I would like to make some corrections to Michael Hull’s otherwise excellent article, “Frank Merrill’s Jungle Trek” (July 2003). Read more
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The Archaeologist Was a Spy
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Sylvanus G. Morley (1883-1948) was considered the most influential and successful archaeologist of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. Read more
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Ivan R. Dee’s ‘Forged in War’
By Michael D. HullThey were two unlikely looking warriors, yet their fateful friendship and shared leadership ensured the Allied victory in World War II and laid the groundwork for peace. Read more
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Bomber Pilot Colin Kelly
By Wil DeacThe days following Pearl Harbor were grim ones for the United States. Headlines screamed of one Japanese victory after another. Read more
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The B-26 Marauder
By Sam McGowanOf all the better-known Allied aircraft of World War II, the most controversial was Martin’s B-26 Marauder, a twin-engine cigar-shaped medium bomber that was loved by some and hated by many. Read more
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Bushmasters’ Baptism of Fire: The Battle of Lone Tree Hill
By Al HemingwayLieutenant General Hachiro Tagami, commanding officer of the 36th Division, dubbed the Tiger Division, did not like the news he had received from Imperial Army Headquarters in Tokyo. Read more
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USS Houston
Dear WWII History:
My compliments on your fine article by John Wukovits in the November 2003 issue, “Heroic Fight Against Long Odds,” describing the last battle of the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth and the American heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA 30). Read more
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General Curtis LeMay was the foremost advocate of massive B-29 raids on Japan.
The nightmarish vision that the Japanese high command had hoped to forestall with its Special Attack Unit raids on American airbases in the Marianas did, with devastating effect, become reality in the spring of 1945. Read more
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The Battle Above the Clouds
By Eric T. BakerAvalanche Press has two new games out. The first is Dave Powell’s War of the States: Chickamauga & Chattanooga, the second in the War of the States series. Read more
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Armenians at Antioch
Dear Editor:
In your August 2003 issue John Murphy in an article titled “Deus le Veult!” discussed one of the most fascinating military operations in the history of the Crusades—the conquest of Antioch. Read more
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To Find The Fallen And The Missing
For even so far back as the Iliad, soldiers have felt honor-bound not to abandon the bodies of their comrades on the field of battle. Read more
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The Wehrmacht
By Michael D. HullBetween September 1939 and November 1941, the German Army inflicted crushing defeats on Polish, Dutch, Belgian, Norwegian, French, British, and Soviet Armies, achieving in a matter of months what had been impossible during four bloody years of attrition on the Western Front in 1914-18. Read more
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The National D-Day Museum highlights the War in the Pacific via major expansion.
When the skies above Pearl Harbor were stained with the smoke of war on the morning of December 7, 1941, and other U.S. Read more
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Heroic Fight Against Long Odds
By John WukovitsThe haggard American sailors aboard the limping cruiser hoped that the journey upon which they had just embarked was the long-expected voyage back to the United States. Read more
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Specific Training for Pacific Fighting
By Kevin M. HymelOn the Hawaiian island of Oahu, soldiers learned how to close with the Japanese in the jungles of the Pacific. Read more
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My Experience In The Low-Level Ploesti Raid
Dear Sir,
In the May issue of WWII History, the article “Low Level Run at Ploesti” by Sam McGowan contained many errors. Read more
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Cartoonist Bill Mauldin portrayed the hardship of war tinged with unforgettable humor.
When a 21-year-old New Mexico boy began drawing cartoons for the 45th Division News, that outfit’s weekly newspaper, just about everybody was amused. Read more
