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An amphibious DUKW landing vehicle burns in the background of this photo as US Marines have taken cover on the landing beach near Asan, Guam. The image was taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal, who would take the iconic photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima six months later.

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Hitting the Beach at Guam

By David Alan Johnson

Sometime during the middle of July 1944, a well-meaning war correspondent asked an officer with the Third Marine Division if his men were ready for the landings on Guam. Read more

In 1940 the R.A.F. was producing 115 trained pilots every two weeks to fly planes such as this Supermarine Spitfire.

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Pilot Officer Percy Prune

By Kerria Seabrooke

After German Chancellor Adolf Hitler had rejected all offers of peace, Prime Minister

Winston Churchill declared in June 1940 that “The Battle of Britain is about to begin.” Read more

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Blood on the Snow: The Battle of Nashville

By John Walker

For the black-skinned, blue-clad soldiers deployed on the extreme left flank of the Union Army outside Nashville, Tennessee, the order to advance announced at dawn on December 15, 1864, was a long time coming. Read more

During his only visit to Paris, Adolf Hitler pauses on the terrace of the Palais de Chaillot with the Eiffel Tower in the background on June 23, 1940.

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Paris Under the Swastika

By Tim Miller

Once, during the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German officer made his way to the attic of 7 Rue des Grands-Augustins, home and studio of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Read more

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Nine World War II Book Reviews for Fall 2025

By Kevin Seabrooke Full Reviews

Pearl Harbor: Japan’s Greatest Disaster (Mark Stille, Osprey/Bloomsbury Publishing, 368pp., 16-pages b.w photos, appendices, Nov. 4, 2025 $35 HC)

Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines (Peter R. Read more

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Costly British Victory at Ferozeshah

By John Brown

A little over five centuries ago, a guru named Nanak founded a new faith among the Hindu communities that farmed the rich agricultural areas of northern India known as the Punjab, the Land of the Five Rivers. Read more

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Hurricanes in the Arctic Skies

By Neil Taylor

Nestled among patches of dwarf birch trees on the side of a hill gently rising above the dockyard of the Russian Northern Fleet in Severomorsk (formerly known as Vaenga) lies a nondescript cemetery bearing witness to the savage conflict that engulfed the Soviet Union’s northern frontiers during the latter half of 1941. Read more

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Grit & Valor: 1949 (VR)

By Joseph Luster

We previously covered developer Milky Tea’s Grit & Valor: 1949, which recently made its way to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC. Read more

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Blitzkrieg Express

By Joseph Luster

Taking a break from intense strategy games, which tend to dominate the World War II gaming landscape, we have something completely different but no less engaging in Blitzkrieg Express. Read more

A Japanese Aichi D3A “Val” dive bomber is captured near Pearl Harbor in this image of the events of December 7, 1941. A flight of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters strafed the Ewa Marine Corps Air Station, followed minutes later by a formation of Vals carrying ordnance.

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Embattled Marines At Air Station Ewa

By Joshua Donohue

Lieutenant Commander Shigeru Itaya eased the throttle lever forward in the cockpit of his Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter as it left the deck of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) carrier Akagi just after 6 a.m. Read more

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Avoiding the Nameless Grave—Civil War ID Tags

By Don Troiani

The American Civil War may well have been the first major conflict in which soldiers felt the need to wear some sort of a personal identification badge in the event that they were killed or wounded in battle. Read more

Buckskin-clad Texas troops overrun white-uniformed Mexican forces in this panoramic depiction of the Battle of San Jacinto. The Texans’ victory guaranteed their independence.

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Texan Victory at San Jacinto: Eighteen Minutes to Freedom

By John Walker

As long afternoon shadows rolled across the prairie near the confluence of the Buffalo Bayou and the San Jacinto River in eastern Texas on April 21, 1836, two armed camps—one a small Texan force, the other a 1,400-man-strong Mexican army—lay within a scant 1,000 yards of each another. Read more

Soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Division file ashore from Omaha Beach several days after the D-Day landings in Normandy. During the course of World War II, the Army and Marine Corps changed the configuration of their combat divisions to make them more efficient.

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U.S. Divisions of World War II

By Colonel James W. Hammond, Jr. USMC (Ret.)

The definitive combat unit of comparable strength among the forces of the world during the 20th century was the division. Read more

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