WWII History August 2020
Into The Bitter Forest
By David H. Lippman“In the early hours of 8 February 1945, I climbed into my command post, which consisted of a small platform halfway up a tree,” Lt. Read more
WWII History August 2020
Manstein’s Victorious Panzers
By William E. WelshDeep snow blanketed the steppes surrounding the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov on February 6, 1943. The soldiers of Major Kurt Meyer’s reconnaissance battalion of SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler shivered from the cold. Read more
WWII History August 2020
Douglas A-20 Havoc Bomber: The Scourge of Axis Shipping
By Robert F. McEniryFollowing the apocalyptic initial phase of Operation Barbarossa starting on June 22, 1941, the Germans inflicted crippling losses on the Red Army Air Forces (VVS) and the Soviet Naval Air Forces (VVS-VMF). Read more
WWII History August 2020
The Japanese Surrender at Tokyo Bay
By Michael D. HullAfter six years of global destruction, suffering, and death, World War II was almost over in the Spring of 1945. Read more
WWII History August 2020
Savage Fight for Hill 700 on Bougainville
By Nathan N. PreferThe campaign to reduce the importance of the major Japanese base at Rabaul on the island of New Britain—begun more than a year earlier at Guadalcanal and Buna, New Guinea—was finally in its last stages by November 1943, as U.S. Read more
WWII History August 2020
From D-Day to VE-Day in a C-47
By Kevin HymelHigh over Normandy, France, eight paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division charged out the rear door of their C-47 Skytrain aircraft. Read more
WWII History August 2020
American Tank Ace Lafayette Pool
By Christopher MiskimonA column of American M-4 Sherman medium tanks moved through Dison, Belgium, in late summer 1944, near the city of Liege. Read more
WWII History August 2020
August Military Games
By Joseph LusterWe’ve previously covered the original Panzer Corps, which is a fantastic and, at this point, classic entry in the realm of PC strategy games. Read more
WWII History August 2020
Witness to Okinawa
By Christopher MiskimonOn April 1, 1945, Major Arthur Shaw leaned against the railing of an attack transport ship and stared into the distance at the island of Okinawa. Read more
WWII History August 2020
USS West Virginia survived Pearl Harbor to reach Tokyo Bay.
Her wounds had been grievous that morning in 1941, when Japanese torpedo bombers swept low over the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor and unleashed their deadly cargoes at the easy targets moored along Battleship Row. Read more
WWII History August 2020
An Ace in a day: Ted Crosby’s Air War in the Pacific
By Eric NiderostLieutenant (j.g.) John “Ted” Crosby banked his Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat around, observing the life-and-death drama that was unfolding below him. Read more
