We are very sorry to let you know that long-standing Osprey author Gordon L. Rottman passed away last week.

Gordo entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969–70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long-range patrol and intelligence assignments before retiring after 26 years. Following that he was a Special Operations Forces scenario writer at the Joint Readiness Training Center for 12 years before becoming a freelance writer.

Gordo wrote over a hundred books for Osprey across many of our series, with a particular focus on the US involvement in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, as well as the Vietnam War in which he served. He will be greatly missed by those who worked with him.