Volume 24, No. 3
Cover: A Stuart light tank in North Africa. These tanks were no match for Rommel’s panzers at Kasserine.
Fall 2025
WWII History, Editorial
The events of early August 1945 brought World War II in the Pacific to an end and ushered in a new era of warfare, one with the potential for apocalyptic annihilation. Read more
Fall 2025
WWII History, Ordnance
The Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 was the first naval engagement in history to be fought between aircraft carriers. Read more
Fall 2025
WWII History, Profiles
Mission No. 443, dispatching the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Air Divisions against Nazi-occupied Europe was launched by the U.S. Read more
Fall 2025
WWII History, Insight
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
Fall 2025
WWII History, Top Secret
Ensign Kay Kopl Vesole, USNR, did not like being a sitting duck. Normally he would have enjoyed the warm Italian sunshine, but as commander of the Navy Armed Guard aboard the John Bascom, a 7,176-ton Liberty ship, he was not permitted to relax while his ship lay moored in crowded Bari harbor, a small though vital port on the heel of Italy. Read more
Fall 2025
WWII History, Books
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
Fall 2025
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
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
Fall 2025
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
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
Fall 2025
WWII History
Task force commander Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hogan, eager to get any advantage over the entrenched enemy of the 12th Infantry Division, requested a section of M2 flamethrowers from the 23rd Engineer Battalion. Read more
Fall 2025
WWII History
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
Fall 2025
WWII History
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
Fall 2025
WWII History
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
Fall 2025
WWII History
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
Fall 2025
WWII History
The message was sent to a staff officer for Brig. Gen. Paul Robinett to read, and it made very little sense. Read more
