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Britannia Triumphant at the Nile
By Joshua ShepherdSmoke drifted across the quarterdeck of H.M.S. Vanguard, occasionally obscuring the figure of a slender officer bowed with battle wounds and outright exhaustion. Read more
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Lockheed’s Electra and Lodestar
By Sam McgowanDuring its history, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation has earned a reputation for building versatile airplanes. Its 1950s era C-130 Hercules is no doubt the most famous, but it was not the first. Read more
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Warpath
By Joseph LusterFollowing up on its previous debut on iOS and Android devices, free-to-play real-time strategy game Warpath recently made its way to PC courtesy of Lilith Games. Read more
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The Great War: Western Front
By Joseph LusterFor a detailed strategy game focusing on World War I, the folks behind Command & Conquer Remastered and Star Wars: Empire at War have delivered The Great War: Western Front. Read more
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From the Luftwaffe: Joachim Benz on the Eastern Front
By Joachim Benz, as told to Peter D. Fyfe and Ward CarrFollowing service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery during the early 1970s, Ward Carr decided to remain in Germany, residing in Frankfurt. Read more
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Con Thien: Hell on the Hill of Angels
By Al HemingwayLieutenant General Lewis Walt was not a happy man. The burly III Marine Amphibious Force commander had just been ordered by Commanding General William C. Read more
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WWII Letters: Corporal James. G. Delaney
By Maura B. DelaneyLetters were a valuable commodity to the World War II soldier. They were the link to home and to all things familiar in a most unfamiliar place and time. Read more
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Still a Splendid Sight: Merrill’s Mauraders
By Al HemingwayPrivate First Class Frank Rinaldi cautiously made his way through the dense foliage. He and other soldiers were on patrol when they heard the unmistakable sound of Japanese voices, and they inched their way forward to investigate. Read more
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Rising Sun and Russian Bear
By Michael E. Haskew
For three centuries, feudal Japan remained comfortably isolated from the rest of the world. By order of the Tokugawa Shogunate, foreigners landing on Japanese shores risked immediate execution. Read more
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Walter Koehler & J. Edgar Hoover
By David Alan JohnsonThroughout his lifetime, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover always boasted that no enemy agent, either spy or saboteur, ever operated at large in the United States during World War II. Read more
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The Korean War’s Counterfire Platoons
By Richard E. EckerIn March 1953, a battle-scarred United Nations outpost called “Old Baldy” was attacked by elements of the Chinese Army and captured from the Colombian soldiers occupying it. Read more
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German U-Boats: Scapa Flow Shock
By Jon LatimerWorld War II had been in progress for six weeks when on the evening of October 12, 1939, the German submarine U-47 surfaced off the Orkney Islands at the northern tip of Scotland. Read more
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The Dragon and the Boar: The Battle of Bosworth Field
By William E. WelshLike bees guarding their hive, the royal host of King Richard III swarmed atop 400-foot-high Ambion Hill near the Leicestershire village of Market Bosworth on the morning of August 22, 1485. Read more
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Over the Hump: Supplying Allied Forces over the Himalayas
By Sam McGowanIn truth, it really was not a combat operation. For every airplane lost to enemy action, a hundred were destroyed in accidents. Read more
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The History of the U.S. Coast Guard
By Blaine TaylorOn August 4, 1790, at the urging of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, the United States Congress authorized the construction of 10 armed revenue cutters. Read more
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First Deadly Round at The Battle of Monte Cassino
By David H. LippmanBy December 1943, the phrase “sunny Italy” had evolved from being a travel agent’s selling point to becoming an ugly joke for the British and American troops of the Allied Fifth Army, advancing north from Naples to Rome. Read more
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Fire Over Texas: Galveston in the Civil War
By R. Thomas CampbellWhen Texas seceded from the Union on February 1, 1861, it did not take long for the new Confederate government to realize that the state’s 385-mile coastline was extremely vulnerable to enemy assaults. Read more
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12 O’Clock High: American Airmen in World War II
By Allan T. DuffinA hard-hitting novel that inspired a classic war film, 12 O’Clock High was a very personal project for co-authors Beirne Lay, Jr., Read more
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Civil War Fieldworks
By Kevin O’BeirneEver since Julius Caesar’s legions conquered Gaul, opposing armies have built temporary fortifications, or fieldworks, during campaigns in the open countryside. Read more
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The Mechanization of War in the Desert
By Christopher MiskimonBenito Mussolini dreamed of a new Roman Empire centered around the modern nation of Italy. “The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake,” he said. Read more
