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Panzer Corps
By Joseph LusterIf everything goes the way developer the Lordz Games Studio is hoping, then this year will be host to something really special for fans of strategy games. Read more
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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
By Joseph LusterThe last game in 1C’s IL-2 Sturmovik series, Birds of Prey, was a real treat in 2009, as illustrated in our own head-to-head clash with Heroes Over Europe (both titles published by Ubisoft). Read more
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“One with the Air”
By Al Hemingway“You either loved him or hated him,” one former Marine said of Gregory “Pappy” Boyington. “There was no in-between.” Read more
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Marianas Turkey Shoot
Dear Editor:
I just finished reading David Lippman’s article on the Marianas Turkey Shoot in the March 2011 issue of WWII History magazine. Read more
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World War II as a Campaign Issue?
In the recently concluded midterm elections, who could have guessed that World War II would have been a campaign issue for one of the candidates? Read more
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Eisenhower’s Hatchet Man
By Al HemingwayThey called him “Beetle.” He could be gruff and downright insulting at times to his subordinates. New officers joining his staff cringed when they had to go in and “meet the old man.” Read more
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Red Orchestra 2: Heroes Of Stalingrad
By Joseph LusterThings were a little bit different in 2006, when developer Tripwire Interactive released the first of their Red Orchestra series, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Read more
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Aschaffenberg
Dear Editor:
I read with interest the story of the Battle of Aschaffenburg (January 2011 issue). I was stationed in the village of Munster bei Dieburg in the mid to late 1980s and was in Aschaffenburg many times as it was about 15 miles away. Read more
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Bodies of Japanese Casualties Discovered on Iwo Jima.
While most images of a tourist trip to Hawaii have to do with beautiful beaches, hula skirts, and great surfing, a student of history must make it a point to visit two sites, Pearl Harbor and the Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, commonly referred to as the Punchbowl because of its distinctive location within the crater of a extinct volcano in sight of modern downtown Honolulu. Read more
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Nero’s Blame in the Great Fire of Rome
By Al HemingwayThe image most people have of the Roman emperor Nero is of him perched at the summit of the Palatine hills, strumming his lyre while Rome is engulfed in flames. Read more
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The Death of Union “Boy General” Elon Farnsworth
While newly minted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer was leading his Michigan cavalry brigade to glory at Gettysburg, fellow brigadier Elon Farnsworth, himself a native Wolverine, confronted a very different fate. Read more
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Stalin’s Wartime Paranoia
By Al HemingwayIt has long been common knowledge to most historians and followers of World War II history in the European Theater, that the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front. Read more
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Making War On The Wii
By Joseph LusterOptions for World War II-related gaming run pretty thick if you do the majority of it on PC. Read more
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Value of World War II History
Dear Editor:
I am an eighth-grader. I am also a Boy Scout in Troop 456 in Wildwood, Missouri. I read your magazine a lot. Read more
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Eileen Nearne was the war heroine next door.
To the neighbors, she was an elderly woman who lived an unassuming life, loved her cats, kept to herself, and seemed even somewhat reclusive. Read more
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Revisiting the Tet Offensive
By Al HemingwayMany who remember the 1968 Tet Offensive in South Vietnam still believe that the U.S. military suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the North Vietnamese Army. Read more
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Bravery in Embattled Bastogne
By Michael D. HullShivering and stamping their feet in the snow, three American soldiers warmed their hands over a small fire at an observation post. Read more
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Gettysburg in Black and White
By Michael E. HaskewBy the 1860s, photography itself was little more than 30 years old. Photographic techniques had progressed somewhat in three decades, but the process was still lengthy and the equipment was cumbersome. Read more
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When War Came Home
By Kevin HymelUnlike most civil wars, the American Civil War took place primarily in one section of the country—the South. Read more
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He Was Full of Pluck!
By Al HemingwayCovering the left flank of the Union Army at Gettysburg, the hill known as Little Round Top, was heroically defended against determined Confederate attack. Read more
