By Scott J Meyer

There are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of World War Two games out there. So when I say that there is another WWII Real-Time Strategy game out, you may be turned off instantly. But, Company of Heroes is certainly no typical WWII RTS. Taking place in Normandy soon after D-Day, Company of Heroes puts you in command of Able Company in the fight against Germany. Coupled with an expansion, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts , you can also take control of the British 2^nd Army or German Panzer Elite. The Gold Edition grabs you both for one price. The game combines constant action, wonderful graphics, and unbelievable historical accuracy which makes it one of the best in its class.

If you loved the movie Saving Private Ryan , and thought Call of Duty was a great first-person shooter companion, then imagine the idea transformed into the Real-Time Strategy genre. Enter Company of Heroes: Gold . You take charge of a company of troops, tanks, and emplacements in order to defeat your enemy. Gathering resources (manpower, ammo, and fuel) involves capturing strategic points throughout the battlefield. Each faction is highly unique, and offers three different company commander options to further increase diversity. Each company commander allows you to “research” upgrades for your troops, as well as specialized units and artillery and air support. Starting with a Headquarters, which produce construction units, you can build several different structures (or, in the case of the British, different Command Trucks) which open up new technologies and units for production. Each unit is displayed extremely realistically, with army specific weapons and weapon upgrades. Infantry squads are controlled as a single unit, and are very intelligent AI-wise. They use cover to avoid fire, and without cover are suppressed and pinned by heavy fire. Engineers allow construction of field defenses like sandbags, barbed wire, trenches, and machine gun posts. Tanks are armored behemoths, towering over infantry with massive firepower, but with armor depicted realistically, are vulnerable to rear attacks. Soon, you will find yourself unconsciously flanking enemy machine guns with infantry and anti-tank emplacements with armor to get a better shot.

With a heavy-duty gaming computer, visuals are beautiful. Bullets kick up dirt, tanks can bounce enemy rounds with their frontal armor, and artillery looks frightfully devastating. By zooming in on units, you can easily make out individual weapons and markings on vehicles. Also, the entire map is destructible. If you order artillery on enemy infantry hidden in houses, each shell that hits will knock off the part of the building it hits, eventually leveling the structure. Tanks turning on city streets will occasionally knock off the corners of nearby buildings, and walls are no barrier. With each distinct explosion leaving a mark on the landscape, it really looks as though a war has been fought.

Company of Heroes: Gold Edition delivers three separate campaigns, each with a very respectable length. You can lead Able Company, US Army from D-Day until the closing of the Falaise Gap. Choosing the British 2^nd Army gives you command of the very distinct British forces in the drive on Caen. Finally, the Panzer Elite campaign places you in command of German forces trying to stop the Operation Market Garden airborne invasions. When done with the campaigns (which will take many hours to complete), there are several dozen instant-action maps to choose from. If you choose online play, there is a very active community. Another faction, the regular German Army, is available in instant-action and multiplayer games, with its own units and company command trees. My only personal grief was multiplayer connection problems, which are not isolated, but not common either.

Company of Heroes is probably the best WWII Real-Time Strategy game available. Between building your base, capturing points, and making decisions in combat (tactical decisions are very important as opposed to most RTS’s), even vet players will have their hands full. With such wonderful graphics and realistic gameplay, it can be difficult to stop playing. Such diversity, with four armies and three company commanders each, along with many varied maps and missions, make Company of Heroes: Gold Edition an excellent addition to the genre, and proves that all WWII games are not created equal.

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By Ronald Standerfer

Every once in a while a book manages to burrow its way into my mind and I can’t make it go away. The Hellish Vortex is that kind of book. It didn’t start out that way. As a matter of fact, when I first looked at the cover I thought, Gee, this is a book about a young fighter pilot in World War II. I was a young fighter pilot back in the dark ages and flew combat in the Vietnam War. This ought to be a fun read. But a funny thing happened on my way to the last chapter. Inexplicably, my whole perspective changed concerning a subject I thought I knew as well as any combat veteran can. Namely; who are heroes and who are not; and how can you tell the difference?

Brigadier General Richard M Baughn (USAF, Retired) is one of those rare authors who can pull a period of World War II history off a dusty book shelf and breathe fresh new life into it. In his latest book, The Hellish Vortex, he describes the air campaign in the European theater between 1943 and 1945, during which waves of American B-17 and B-24 bombers, escorted by P-38, P-40 and P-51 fighters, pounded Germany. In the same narrative, he chronicles the daily lives of the men who flew them. The result is pure magic; a book well worth reading. How did he do it? It’s simple. For one thing, he is a good writer and for another, he flew P-51s in Europe during the same period. As the saying goes, he has been there, done that. It works every time!

The principal character in the book is 2nd Lt. Robb Baines, a nineteen year old fighter pilot who arrives in the U.K. underage and under trained for his new assignment flying P-51s and escorting bombers to Germany. Like most nineteen year olds, Baines, who I suspect is General Baughn’s alter ego, secretly wonders if he is up to the task at hand. But tangling with German ME 109s and ME 110s is dangerous business with no margin for self doubt, as Baines quickly found out. In time, he became a seasoned combat veteran, a confident leader, and a candidate for bigger and better things in what would become the United States Air Force in 1947.

There are several other characters in the book worth mentioning. There is The Colonel, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, the group commander who led his pilots with a calm steady hand; Big John, a sergeant whose well meaning support for the war effort included seducing the wife of a local chicken farmer to get eggs for the pilots’ predawn breakfasts; and Rocco, Baines’ long suffering wing man who lives his life with characteristic gritty, New York City bravado. These characters, and many others like them, add spice to an already well prepared dish. Speaking of spices, there is love, romance and sex in the book as well; but the author is careful not to let these asides draw him off the main theme.

One of the things I like about The Hellish Vortex, is that the author periodically inserted excerpts from a paper entitled The Army Air Forces and 8th Air Force during World War II, purportedly written by Baines while at The Armed Forces Staff College. These asides afford the reader a chance to take a break and look at the big picture. It was there that I learned things I never knew, or had forgotten, about the growth of American air power between World War I and 1947. And it was also there that I read a statistic I still can’t get out of my mind; namely, There were 41,802 airmen killed in a force that never exceeded 100,000 pilots, navigators, bombardiers, and aerial gunners. This grim statistics reinforces something I have always suspected, namely: that it is tempting for warriors to tell their stories loudly, garnering praise and admiration wherever and whenever they can. But the plain truth is that not all warriors are heroes; just as not all heroes are warriors; and those that are, often prefer to speak softly in deference to the heroes that never made it home. It took a simple book, written by a talented, unassuming writer to confirm my suspicion.

You can buy The Hellish Vortex at Amazon.com. It is an excellent read.

Ron Standerfer is a retired Air Force Colonel and fighter pilot who flew 250 combat missions during the Vietnam War. He has written numerous short stories, magazine articles, and blog pieces on military aviation in general, and fighter pilots in specific. During the initial bombing of Baghdad during the Persian Gulf War, he was seen on national TV as a military analyst. His latest novel, The Eagle’s Last Flight, chronicles the life of an Air Force fighter pilot during the Cold War and Vietnam years. Details of this book can be found at http://www.theeagleslastflight.com

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By Arturo Ronzon

World War 2 saw the mobilization of armies spanning the globe. Logistics were often stretched to the limit as one side sought to outmaneuver the other in a bid to gain supremacy. Technology was also pushed to its limits in a quest to have the upper hand. Raw materials were being utilized by the dozens and supply lines to production factories were being guarded just as tightly as supply lines to troops on the front line. One of the more important raw materials used in World War 2 was tin.

Tin was important in the war because it was needed for many purposes. A major usage of tin was in the making of the tin can to store perishable goods for the soldiers. Since tin is rustproof, it was used to coat steel cans before sealing food into the cans. Soldiers can then carry around the tin cans in the battlefield and be ensured of a meal when a safe haven is found. Since tin cans are metallic, soldiers also have the option of heating their meals. A hot meal is always welcomed in cold climate battles – no matter what it tastes like. Water containers are also coated with tin to ensure rust-free drinking water. Some soldiers are also equipped with tin cups that double up as pots to either cook a warm meal or brew some coffee.

Tin also played an important role in the electronics used by soldiers. Tin was used in the soldering of circuit boards that made up the bulk of military electronics. The communications radio pack carried by the infantry had a fair amount of electronics. Since the solders were made of tin, they can easily be fixed if they were damaged. All it took was a hot soldering iron to put things back together again. Obviously, a communications pack that was blown to pieces was beyond repair, no matter how much tin you had.

Last but not least are the tin fish used by submarines. The tin fish were not really fish and not made of tin either – not completely anyway. Tin fish was the nickname given to torpedoes used in the submarines.

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 By Ray Tapajna

The Globalist Free Traders have found an evangelist in Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. In his book The World is Flat, Friedman calls periods in history that paved the way for Globalization and Free Trade flatteners but he skips over some of the most major ones. The Lend Lease Act in the World War 2 era is one of them. It changed the course of history and it demonstrated that you can’t do business with people who do not have money. You either have to find a way to get money to them or you have to give them things to restore their economic values in a balanced geopolitical setting. You can not move production from place to place seeking the cheapest labor markets of the world because there is an endless pool of workers who will do most anything to survive and they will never have enough money to buy anything the economic host nation may still have left to sell.

In the end, you have a continuous diminishing process where a working poor class needs cheaper and cheaper prices while the impoverished destitute classes do not make enough money to grow their own economy proving you can not do business with people who do not have money. You can only use them for selfish purposes. This then acts as a boomerang coming back to knock you out too. It is like a dog chasing its own tail. Consumers in the USA shop their way out of their jobs. The money spent at the retail levels quickly fans out to the places where the products are made. The money does not stay in the USA to regrow its own economy.

Who won World War 2? The American workers did. Who lost World War 2 fifty years later? The American workers have. The U.S. has gone through the most massive dislocation of workers in U.S. history with millions losing their jobs. More than 700,000 workers related to the steel industry, over 400,000 auto workers and over a million workers in the computer industry lost their jobs. One third of those over 55 who lost their jobs never found another. Now, workers as taxpayers pay to bring in foreign auto assemblers. The State of Indiana after all things are considered, is paying Honda about 150 million dollars to bring an assembly plant into their state. This will provide 4000 new assembly jobs but recently, close to 20,000 auto parts factory workers have lost their jobs in the state. Taxpayers in other states have paid out even more to get KIA, BMW and other foreign auto assemblers to come to their states. Misssissippi is paying KIA 400 million dollars to assemble KIA automobiles in their state. These autos are describes as being built in the USA and not Made in the USA since the parts come from the wage slave workers of the world. The number of assembly workers in all these foreign plants is only a fraction of the workers of the existing workers in U.S. auto manufacturing plants. They also work for about one half of what the auto workers made in the past.

Who won World War two in the final analysis?

Let us go back in time to 1940. The USA was still coming out of the Great Depression. Tariffs were blamed as the major cause of the depression. However the main cause of the Depression was the stock market crash and the economy took this big hit during a time when tariffs were not even applicable. Free Traders today like to blame the Smooth-Hawley Tariffs as the cause of the Depression, but this bill was passed after the Stock Market crash in 1930 and never really did take hold before Roosevelt took over. Soon afterwards Roosevelt had the authority to lower and raise Tariffs at will in 1934

The next phase ignited the most powerful industrial might in history. Tariffs had no part in the process. Roosevelt knew our nation could not mobilize by semi-independent ways – mobilization had to come as a whole based on many vital needs whether for the military or for civilian uses. President Roosevelt had to sell the war to the American people in a sequence of actions. He started out by doing it with executive orders and schemes. Roosevelt said- what I am trying to do is eliminate the dollar sign – we need to get rid of the silly foolish dollar sign. This was good news to England and Russia who did not have much money left to fight a war.

Thus began the first wave of Free Trade but it was built on giving away products made in the USA.
Many Americans accepted the premise thinking they could stay out of the war while building up our economy at the same time.

Lack of money was the biggest problem in the world. The world was coming out of a Great Depression. After World War 1, the allies wanted Germany to be just one big farm without any production capabilities. Hitler came and filled the void by creating a strong military to invade other countries killing people who were in the way. In the process, Hitler demonstrated how a war machine can create industrial might out of nothing. China and Russia with a elite groups controlling the masses did not have this same capacities but still killed millions for their causes. They killed more than Germany ever did, but the USA chose Germany to be their first enemy. At the same time Japan was claiming a right to the mainland for the sake of their own economic survival. The U.S. approved their claim at the beginning of the century but reversed their agreements with Japan in the 1930s. Japan felt the U.S. betrayed them. This set the stage for Pearl Harbor. After all is said and done, it was really not a surprise attack.

Roosevelt did not want money to get in the way. He took many by surprise when he said, what I am trying to do is to eliminate the dollar sign- we need to get rid of the silly foolish old dollar sign. This also meshed with the new economic theories stating you do not owe anybody and money if you owe yourself. On September 2, 1940, Roosevelt gave Britain 50 Navy Destroyers under his own executive order. This violated international laws and understanding about neutrality. In essence, the U.S.A unofficially declared war on Germany on September 2, 1940.

Around the same time, Roosevelt used an old 1917 law to trade in planes to private manufacturers for newer models with the understanding the private firms would then send the old model planes to Britain at no costs. Then Roosevelt took a further step. After getting re- elected, he had Congress approved the Lend-Lease Act which bypassed any money problems the British and Communist Russia may have had. Right after getting the act passed, Roosevelt made up a list of products we could lend the allies. However, out of the billions of dollars of products sent to the allies, the U.S. was later repaid for just a fraction of the total amounts including the ten per cent of the total U.S. agricultural production that went to Britain and Russia. The U.S.A. also produced and supplied 50% of all the munitions used in World War 2.

Of course, this brought prosperity to the USA. After the war, based on the awesome industrial power, the USA launched the Marshall Plan. This helped restore the local value added economies in Europe and Asia. If we gave Japan this vast economic boost before the war, there would have been really no reason for the war with Japan. Free Traders ignore most of this and chant about non-existent Tariffs that broke our economy during the pre-war era when the undeclared war started years before with Roosevelt’s version of Free Trade. They chant how competition rules the game but as we know this was not the case during the World War 2 era. Then and now it is very questionable if the U.S.A ever had to compete in a global arena. Who, what, when and where concluded we had to compete in a global arena.

Lend-Lease did show that the only thing that works are local value added economies that grow values up several levels from raw product to the retail or end user stage. It also demonstrates , you can not fight any war of any long duration without a strong industrial sector. Today, we have chopped up our local value added economies and scattered the pieces all over the world. In the World War 2 era, we gave away the golden eggs laid by our golden goose industrial might. Now we have chopped up the goose and sent the pieces across the globe. Why have research and development if the manufacturing phase goes somewhere else? Now we have a small high tech army being defeated in a small country with human bombs. Rumsfeld war theories are like a young boy who grew too fast and needs to to get out of any fight fast before his weak stature is exposed.
Finally, President Franklin Roosevelt said, economic diseases are highly communicable. I wonder what he would say today. Free Trade is like sex, you sleep with many partners and subsequently everyone they have slept with. It is an economic epidemic.

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 By Daniel M Delott

The timeline of World War 2 will show that on 6 August 1945 “Little Boy” was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Just three days later “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki, another Japanese city. It is important to know that “Little Man” and “Fat Man” were both nuclear weapons and are, to this date, the only ones ever used in the history of warfare. These bombs killed more than 140,000 people in Hiroshima and about 80,000 in Nagasaki. This number does not include the thousands more killed due to complications associated with excessive radiation exposure. The bombings of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked the beginning of the end of Japanese involvement on the timeline of World War 2.

The atomic bombs were designed and built by the United States with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada. This project was what is now known as the Manhattan Project and led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American physicist. Before either bomb was dropped over Japan it was tested at Trinity Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico in July of 1945. It is interesting to know that the team was unsure if the bombs would even work properly, however the bombs were a success and ready for action over Japan. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, near the end of the timeline of World War 2, were extremely bloody and gruesome attacks. They are seen through history as some of the worst results of bombings and warfare in human history. Now, nuclear weapons are avoided at all costs.

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By Daniel M Delott

In the beginning of 1940, near the start of the timeline of World War 2, the Hitler and his Nazi forces were planning to invade the United Kingdom. This was what we know as Operation Sea Lion, but was never actually carried out due to the fact that the Nazis lost the Battle of Britain in August and September of 1940. Operation Sea Lion was indefinitely postponed by the Nazis on 17 September.

Operation Sea Lion would only be a success if Germany had complete control over the English Channel as well as the skies above it. Taking Great Britain in the Battle of Britain was a key part of any success that Operation Sea Lion would have. Since the Nazis did not defeat the British during that attempt, Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion since he would not have complete control of the British waters and air.

The operation had a very simple theory behind it and if the Battle of Britain had been won by the Nazis, would likely have been a success. Hitler was very interested in breaking down any type of British resistance, even though he firmly believed the war in the west was already won after the victory at the Battle of France. It seemed as though everything was working against the Nazis to invade the United Kingdom after the Battle of Britain. They could not control the water or the air, nor could the three branches of the Nazi armed forces coordinate enough to make Operation Sea Lion a success thus making it just a small mark on the timeline of World War 2.

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 By Daniel M Delott

When discussing the timeline of World War 2 we simply cannot forget to include the Battle of Iwo Jima. The Battle of Iwo Jima involved ground fighting for about thirty-five days spanning between 19 February 1945 and 26 March 1945. This infamous battle that took place near the end of the timeline of World War 2 occurred after the Imperial Japanese Navy had already lost much of its power and was since unable to prevent American landings. The Japanese military had suffered many losses by this point in the war.

During World War 2, the island of Iwo Jima served as a warning station to mainland Japan. Military personnel on the island would radio reports of incoming bombers and any other activity to the mainland. This allowed Japanese air defenses to be prepared against any enemy bombers. Because the island was such an integral part of the protection of Japan, it was a heavy loss when the Americans won the battle of Iwo Jima.

More than 70,000 United States Marine troops fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima from the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions. As the troops arrived, Japanese forces withheld fire for quite some time to allow the Allied forces to build up equipment and troops on the island. It was after some time that the Japanese opened hostile fire. The U.S. troops took quite a hit but in the end defeated the Japanese. The infamous image of the U.S. marines raising the American flag will forever be burned in the memory of the world.

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By Daniel M Delott

Every part of the timeline of World War 2 is an integral part of how the war progressed and ultimately ended, but some events are more pivotal than others. The Fall of France, otherwise known as the Battle of France, was the invasion of France and the Low Countries by Nazi Germany and began on 10 May 1940. The battle lasted from May until 22 June 1940 and was a major victory for the Nazis. The Fall of France was executed in two main operations known as Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) and Fall Rot (Case Red). The previous operation involved the Nazis cutting off and surrounding the Allied forces in Belgium and the latter involved the main attack on the larger territory of France.

Eventually France would be divided into several occupation zones including the German occupation in the north and west, the Italian occupation in the southeast, and the collaborationist rump state in the south region. The German occupation lasted from the fall of the nation until the Allied reclamation of the region in 1944. The German occupation of France was essential to the Nazis so that they could continue to have access to certain supplies and materials.

As with any of the battles and war events found on the timeline of World War 2, the Battle of France was a blood one. There was much resistance against the German invasion as Allied forces attempted to fend off the Nazis from entering the territory. It was originally thought that the Nazis could overtake the region in just a few weeks, but it did take quite some time.

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By Daniel M Delott

The timeline of World War 2 may very well have begun at the end of World War 1 in 1918, because only three years later Adolf Hitler was to become the leader of the National Socialist “Nazi” Party in Germany. While he was not yet Chancellor, a dictator, or the Führer he was well on his way to becoming one of the most tyrannical leaders known to the modern world. In 1933, the real timeline of World War 2 begins with the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany and finally ends in 1945 when the Allies take over the German government.

Adolf Hitler plays an integral and maniacal role in the timeline of World War 2 in that he was the mastermind behind many of the Nazi party’s actions. Hitler had it in mind to make a pure race and eradicate any other that would contaminate it, including the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, blacks, and any other “non-perfect” race; which was everything except the master race. Hitler’s master race was what he called the Aryan race (blonde, blue-eyed, tall).

World War 2 ended in 1945, shortly after Hitler’s suicide with mistress, Eva Braun. It was in 1945 that the Allied forces overtook the Axis and reclaimed Europe, ending what was to be known as one of the vilest wars known in modern history. Although more than 60 years have gone by, World War 2, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust has been permanently burned into the minds of those who lived through it and those who will only hear about it in history class.

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By Daniel M Delott

Thousands of Jewish homes and almost 8,000 Jewish shops were ransacked and destroyed during what is now known as Kristallnacht, or “Night of the Broken Glass”, throughout Germany on the 9th and 10th of November 1938. Both the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS) rampaged Germany with sledgehammers as they smashed windows, doors, and buildings belonging to or housing Jewish families and businesses. It was during this part of the timeline of World War 2 that more than 30,000 Jewish men were taken away to concentration camps, more than 1,600 synagogues ransacked, and many Jews beaten to death in their homes and on the street.

Adolf Hitler, the mad man behind all events to cleanse Germany of the Jews and other unclean races, planned for this event to take place on Martin Luther’s birthday. Hitler, at this point on the timeline of World War 2, was following the outline set forth by Luther in 1543 in his writing On the Jews and Their Lies. However, it is proclaimed that the whole incident was set in motion by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Jew, when he shot and killed a German Embassy staff member in Paris in retaliation for the way his family suffered at the hands of the Nazis.

Almost two weeks prior to Kristallnacht, more than 15,000 Jews including Grynszpan’s family, all originally from Poland were forcibly expelled from Germany by train and dumped at the Polish border. The world’s reaction to Hitler’s “bloody vengeance against the Jews” was not well received by any means. The United States recalled its German ambassador permanently immediately following the event.

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