WWII History February 2015

Evans Carlson & America’s First Special Operations Team

By Duane Schultz

Major Evans Carlson stood on a rickety platform built from wooden crates, the kind their rations came in. Read more

WWII History February 2015

World War 2 Casualties & Caring for the Wounded

By Jon Diamond

The U.S. military employed an organized system for the treatment of soldiers severely wounded while fighting in the Pacific, including their evacuation stateside if needed. Read more

WWII History February 2015

Incident on the Yangtze

By Michael D. Hull

While America and Europe struggled through economic depression and nervously watched the spread of fascism in the second half of the 1930s, the situation was far more ominous in the Far East. Read more

WWII History February 2015

The U.S. Ninth Army’s Breakout: Crossing the Roer and the Rhine

By Michael D. Hull

After the Battle of the Bulge delayed their advance by six critical weeks, the British, U.S., and Canadian armies went on the offensive in mid-January 1945 and pushed toward the German frontier. Read more

WWII History February 2015

NA-16 Wirraway: From Trainer to Fighter

By Glenn Barnett

By the mid-1930s many people in Australia were concerned that if war came to Europe that Great Britain would not be able to come to their defense against a growing and aggressive Japanese Empire. Read more

WWII History February 2015

Raid on Darwin: Australia’s Pearl Harbor

By Arnold Blumberg

The sun was just rising and the day promised clear skies overhead. Since 5 am maintenance crews had been running the engines, making last minute adjustments, and arming the scores of aircraft sitting on the steel flight deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi. Read more

WWII History February 2015

Heroic Airacobras of the Cactus Air Force

By Patrick J. Chaisson

Shortly after 11 am on August 22, 1942, the roar of aircraft engines shattered the stillness over Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. Read more

WWII History February 2015

Fritz Todt: The Mysterious Death of the Nazi Engineer

By Blaine Taylor

In his 1969 memoir, Albert Speer asserted that Adolf Hitler would never have appointed him Third Reich minister of armaments had not his predecessor in that post, acclaimed engineering genius Dr. Read more

WWII History February 2015

KMS Scharnhorst: A Truly Cursed Warship from Nazi Germany?

By Kelly Bell

Because the victorious Allies had destroyed Imperial Germany’s fleet after World War I, Adolf Hitler had no choice but to construct a new navy after he came to power. Read more

WWII History February 2015

Goldap Operation: Soviets in the Prussian Heartland

By Pat McTaggart

Soviet General Ivan Danilovich Cherniakhovskii was in a good mood as he waited for his generals to arrive. Read more

WWII History February 2015

How The Battle of Iwo Jima Saved American Lives

By Mike Haskew

On February 19, 1945, thousands of American Marines hit the beaches on the Volcano Islands in the Pacific, starting what we call today the Battle of Iwo Jima. Read more

WWII History February 2015

Company of Heros 2 Update Game Review

By Joseph Luster

Company of Heroes 2 players recently got a treat in the form of an update that adds in some oft-requested features. Read more

WWII History February 2015

Campaign on Land & Sea and in the Air

By Christopher Miskimon

After the U.S. victory at Midway in June 1942, the focus of the War in the Pacific moved south. Read more

WWII History February 2015

World of Diving Game Review

By Joseph Luster

World War II games span a plethora of genres and sub-genres, but a recent content update for World of Diving might be one of the most unique. Read more