Posted on Mar 8, 2012 in Boardgames
'Whistling Death: WWII Air Warfare Over the Pacific, 1941 - 1945' is an expansion for J.D. Webster's 'Fighting Wings,' a highly detailed boardgame series. 'Whistling Death' comes with counters and data for over 40 types of aircraft and ships.
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Posted on Feb 7, 2012 in War College
The fall of Singapore, the supposedly impregnable fortress, to Imperial Japanese forces in 1942 was possibly the worst defeat of British arms in history; was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to blame?
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Posted on Feb 7, 2012 in Stuff We Like
A photo essay of the Fort Canning Museum and Memories at the Old Ford Factory Museum in Singapore that preserve the city's World War II history.
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Posted on Jan 27, 2012 in Books and Movies
War in the Pacific Skies, by Charlie and Ann Cooper, features the aviation art of Jack Fellows as it tells the story of the fights in the skies wherever Allied and Japanese aircraft clashed in World War II.
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Posted on Jan 25, 2012 in War College
This article focuses on Japanese intelligence service successes during World War II, including the amazingly simple method they employed to break US Army Air Force (USAAF) codes that were used in Burma and China.
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