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Destroyer Matchup at Kula Gulf
By Eric HammelThe Allied invasion of New Georgia began on June 30, 1943, when a large part of the U.S. Read more
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Heinz Gunther Guderian’s ‘From Normandy to the Ruhr’
By Lieutenant Colonel Dominic J. CaracciloNot just another historian’s reenactment of the outcome of World War II, From Normandy to the Ruhr: With the 116th Panzer Division in Word War II is at once a well-crafted and deeply researched scholarly narration and a “multi-tiered memoir”—immaculately translated (a task often overlooked and underrated)—into a definitive history of the ubiquitously employed “Greyhound Division.” Read more
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Collecting German Helmets of World War II
By Peter SuciuIn the annals of 20th-century warfare the modern combat helmet has easily become one of the most recognizable pieces of battlefield equipment. Read more
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Military Intelligence in the Roman Republic
By Douglas SterlingMuch of Julius Caesar’s military successes in the late Roman Republic stemmed not only from his ability as a leader of men and from tactical prowess on the battlefield, but also from his understanding of the importance of military intelligence. Read more
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The Russian T-34 Tank
By Carl ParaEarly in World War II, German panzer forces trampled all foes. Confidence suffused the Germans, and their tank designs stagnated. Read more
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Operation Overlord
Dear Editor:
I enjoyed your article on Operation Overlord (February 2002). The beaches of Normandy will always be engraved in America’s mind. Read more
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Gettysburg
Don Williams’ story on the Devil’s Den allows me an opening to write about the Battle of Gettysburg. To the myriad words on the conflict, I add the following. Read more
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Prelude To Pearl Harbor
By William ScheckThe flight deck of HMS Illustrious had become a very busy place. Aircraft were being raised to the flight deck, aircraft handlers were attending to their tasks, and on the command deck there was an air of anxiety. Read more
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Kenneth S. Davis’ ‘FDR: The War President 1940-1943’
By Michael HullNo American president has had to shoulder heavier burdens than Franklin D. Roosevelt did in the tense months after Japanese carrier planes crippled the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Read more
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Maps
Dear Editor:
Congratulations on your premier issue of WWII History. I found the content to be interesting, the text informative, and the photographs and paintings to be of fine quality. Read more
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Attack and defend, the classic quandary
In the title role of the film classic Patton, actor George C. Scott utters words to the effect that fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. Read more
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Better Or Best: The B-17 Vs. The B-24
By Sam McGowanOne of the most frequently discussed arguments to come out of World War II is which was the “better” bomber, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress or the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Read more
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Bloody Betio: The Assault on Tarawa
By Al HemingwayPfc. Clayton Jay of Lamesa, Texas, was watching the sunrise from the attack transport Zeilin in the early morning hours of November 19, 1943. Read more
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American Baptism of Fire at Kasserine Pass
By Roy Morris, Jr.The North African sky was clear and cold on the evening of February 13, 1943, as American General Dwight D. Read more
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Stanley Weintraub’s ‘Long Day’s Journey into War’
By Michael HullEveryone who was alive on that fateful Sunday morning remembers it all too clearly, and those born later are well aware of what befell the U.S. Read more
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Colonel Bonner Fellers
By Harold E. Raugh, Jr.German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, renowned as “the Desert Fox,” was a master of mobility and maneuver warfare during the see-saw North African campaign of World War II. Read more
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Edwin T. Layton
By Mike MclaughlinOn the morning of December 31, 1941, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumed command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Read more
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A struggle for the planet and for the soul of humankind.
1939-1945. The world had never seen anything like it. Fifty million dead. Every continent except Antarctica inflamed in some way. Europe, the most powerful continent, overrun with fighting, whole cities, some a thousand years in the making, reduced to rubble. Read more
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Get the Transports!
By Eric HammelThe seesaw land, air, and sea battles on, over, and around desperately contested Guadalcanal island had been raging since August 7, and still there was no victor. Read more
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Presaging Pearl Harbor
By Steven WeingartnerWhen Lt. Cmdr. Matsuo Fuchida, commander of the Japanese strike force at Pearl Harbor, arrived over the naval base on the morning of December 7, 1941, the sight that greeted him—enemy battleships resting placidly at anchor—put him in mind of an earlier war. Read more
