Volume 23, No. 1
Cover: Two soldiers from SS-Kampfgruppe Hanson are photographed soon after the unit attacked an American convoy on December 18, 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. A similar attack later that same day was made by another Kampfgruppe on another American unit. Photo: Alamy.
Spring 2024
WWII History, Editorial
On the morning of June 1, 1943, the Douglas DC-3 lifted off from the airport at Lisbon in neutral Portugal. BOAC Flight 777 or Dutch KLM Flight 2L272, as it had been designated, carried 13 passengers and its crew on a flight bound for London. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History, Insight
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the infamous “Desert Fox,” was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Army Group B on the Western Front and put in charge of strengthening the Normandy coastal defenses. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History, Ordnance
Much credit goes to the American ability to quickly manufacture the many ships and planes needed to fight the Pacific War and overwhelm the Japanese enemy. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History, Profiles
Julius Boreali’s diary entry from May 29, 1944, is different from the more typical “calm sea, sun shining” entries that precede it: 12:30 am attacked by a group of German planes. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History, Top Secret
When Albert Einstein arrived in Pasadena, California, in early 1933, he was to take up his duties as visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology for about three months. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History, Books
Patton’s War: An American General’s Combat Leadership, Volume 2 August-December 1944 (Kevin M. Hymel, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, 2023, 467 pp., Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
It may not be set during World War II, but War Hospital fits the bill for the kind of unique experience we’re often looking for in comparable war games. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
Beloved sim publisher Microprose Software is back with another potential hit in the upcoming Task Force Admiral – Vol. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History
Captain (Dr.) Willis P. McKee did not like what he was seeing. For several hours now, crowds of panicky civilians had been streaming past his unit’s tent hospital located at a crossroads eight miles northwest of Bastogne, Belgium. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History
In late 1940 and early 1941, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was concentrating on his next great conquest, the Soviet Union. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History
By the spring of 1943, the Japanese advance across the Pacific had been brought to a halt. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History
On a Belgian hillside at the height of the Battle of the Bulge, an American lieutenant watched as a jeep carrying four men dressed in American uniforms stopped on the road in front of him. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History
Just after releasing their bomb-load, flak slammed into the B-17, causing it to go out of control, falling fast. Read more
Spring 2024
WWII History
Aboard one of two LCIs carrying French commandos approaching the Normandy coast, Lieutenant-Commander (Capitaine de Corvette) Philippe Kieffer looked at his watch. Read more
