Volume 23, No. 4
Cover: A Marine lobs a grenade while searching for enemy troops on Iwo Jima. The dangerous task of rooting out diehard Japanese troops later fell to soldiers of the 147th Infantry Regiment.
Winter 2025
WWII History, Editorial
After years in obscurity, the story of the 6888th Postal Directory Battalion is coming to selected theaters and to Netflix in December with the release of the feature film, The Six Triple Eight. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History, Profiles
Lieutenant Commander Draper Kauffman was crawling across a moonlit beach on enemy-held Tinian Island when he first noticed the sound of voices. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History, Ordnance
Two days after receiving intelligence on the route of an important enemy convoy, the USS Sculpin (Sargo-class submarine SS-191) made radar contact with the Japanese ships near the Caroline Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History, Insight
Bumbling Army Private Snafu was the title character of a series of 26 short cartoons sanctioned by the U.S. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History, Top Secret
At around 9:30 p.m. on August 25, 1939, a German Opel staff car burst into the courtyard of the temporary headquarters of the Abwehr (German Military Intelligence) near the Slovakian and Polish border. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History, Books
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler–How War Made Them and How They Made War (Phillips Payson O’Brien, Dutton Books, New York NY, 2024, 544 pp., Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
In the realm of competitive World War II games, there are plenty of options out there for folks who want to go head-to-head against like-minded wargamers. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
It didn’t take long for Classified: France ‘44 to add to its base game with some expansions, and the second DLC touched down back in May 2024. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History
Allied forces had been fighting their way up the Italian peninsula since landing at Salerno on September 9, 1943. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History
When Hollywood’s Tyler Perry heard a story about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the U.S. Army’s only all-female, all-Black unit of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) to go overseas in World War II, he knew he had to make a movie about it. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History
Men of the Medical Detachment of the 2nd Battalion, 274th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division, arrived in France in December 1944, and within days found themselves in action in Alsace-Lorraine as the unit was sent to help blunt the German offensive—Operation Nordwind. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History
Four miles above the snow-covered city of Steyr, Captain Jack Horner peered down through his Norden bombsight in a desperate attempt to identify the target. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History
After 36 days of ferocious combat, the island of Iwo Jima was declared “secure” by departing U.S. Marines on March 26, 1945. Read more
Winter 2025
WWII History
More or less in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, Malta became one of the most strategic locations in all of World War II. Read more
