WWII History February 2013
Korea Under the Rising Sun
By Allyn VannoyThe first recorded encounter between American forces and Koreans in the Central Pacific during World War II came at Tarawa Atoll in November 1943. Read more
WWII History February 2013
Operation Dragoon: Second D-Day in Southern France
By David H. LippmanWinston Churchill was against it. So was Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark in Italy. But the American chiefs of staff were for it, and so was General Dwight D. Read more
WWII History February 2013
Legendary Panzer Ace Michael Wittmann
By Michael D. HullStraddling the River Orne nine miles from the English Channel coast, the French medieval city of Caen was the focal objective of Lt. Read more
WWII History February 2013
Balkan Bedlam: Special Forces in WWII Albania
By John W. Osborn, Jr.When British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to organize guerrilla resistance against the Nazis, he famously ordered it to set Europe on fire. Read more
WWII History February 2013
The Trains That Fueled the Normandy Breakout
By Kerry SkidmoreHistorian Christian Wolmar concludes that the two world wars could not have been fought to such devastation without military railways, in his book Engines of War. Read more
WWII History February 2013
The Los Baños Raid
By Gene Eric SaleckerOn January 9, 1945, after almost three years, General Douglas MacArthur and the United States Army returned to the Philippine island of Luzon, landing at Lingayen Gulf on the northwest coast. Read more
WWII History February 2013
Pegasus Bridge: Operation Deadstick’s Glider Assault
By Christopher MiskimonOn a darkened airfield at 2230 hours on June 5, 1944, a reinforced company of British gliderborne infantry, D Company of the Second Battalion, Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Ox & Bucks), boarded gliders, prepared to start the invasion of France. Read more
WWII History February 2013
Game Reviews – Under Defeat HD: Deluxe Edition
By Joseph LusterIt’s not often we get to dig into the shoot ‘em up genre in these pages, and no, I’m not talking about the other type of shooter we actually do get to talk about on a regular basis; I’m talking the games lovingly referred to by fans as “shmups” for short. Read more
WWII History February 2013
From Sahara’s Heart: Unearthing A Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk
By Michael HaskewThe ghosts of World War II continue to surface in remote corners of the globe.
Decades after the war in North Africa ended, another reminder of the early and uncertain days in that theater came to the attention of the media and excited historians with a snapshot of a pilot’s ordeal in the unforgiving Egyptian desert where he was forced to land a crippled fighter plane. Read more
