Last U.S. World War I Vet Dies at 110
Frank Buckles, at age 110 the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, died in West Virginia on February 27, 2011.
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Read MoreStrategic Command: World War I Exclusive Screenshots
Our courier has just arrived in his Sopwith Camel and has rushed these screenshots over to Intel. As you can see, Hubert Cater at Fury Software has been hard at work on his upcoming new strategy game, Strategic Command: World War I – The Great War 1914 – 1918. Check out these maps, events, and decisions that players will be enjoying. Strategic Command World War I: The Great War 1914-1918 contains a number of major campaigns that span the Great War including a monster campaign featuring the biggest map of Europe and the Atlantic yet, at over 39,168 tiles, or 384×102. New unit types and completely new features have been created to cover trench warfare, aerial reconnaissance, shell supplies, national morale and more The game engine has been entirely redesigned to represent World War I. The flagship campaigns that come with this release cover the war in Europe starting with the great German offensive into France in August 1914 and ending with the final grand battles in France and...
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