Tanks on Iwo Jima, 1945
By February 1945, three US Marine divisions were committed to take Iwo Jima, a Japanese possession located some 1,200km south of Tokyo.
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By February 1945, three US Marine divisions were committed to take Iwo Jima, a Japanese possession located some 1,200km south of Tokyo.
My personal favourite this year is Mark Galeotti’s Tanks in Ukraine 2022 – an expert examination of the state of the two sides’ armour at the outbreak of the war, and their roles, adaptations, and performance as Ukraine fought to repel the invaders.
The outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914 encouraged US companies to privately develop armored cars for potential export. The Autocar Company in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, manufactured armored machine-gun carriers for Canadian forces in small numbers. The US Congress funded the first US Army armored cars in 1915. In July 1916, the two prototype armored cars were sent to Texas to support Gen.
In the third preview blog from Warlord Games for Bolt Action: Third Edition, the team is looking at the new rules for the Shooting Phase!
A common belief about the 1941 Pacific Fleet was it did not value aviation; that aircraft carriers and aircraft took a back seat to battleships. After all, the 1941 Pacific Fleet was America’s last mighty battleship fleet. It even says so in the book’s title. This offers an easy explanation for the surprise at Pearl Harbor, that the battleship types had ignored the threat naval aviation posed. The US Navy’s brown-shoe aviators tacitly encouraged this belief. They profited by laying the blame on the black-shoe surface warship types. It also deflected attention from naval aviators’ failure to detect the approaching Japanese fleet until too late.
In December 2025 we’ll be publishing Leroy Thompson’s study of the Soviet and Russian machine guns entering service since 1945. This is a subject I have wanted to cover for some time, and I am pleased to be working with Leroy on his latest addition to the series.
The second preview blog from Warlord Games is here for Bolt Action: Third Edition! This week, the team behind the game is digging into big changes to the rules for medium machine guns...
Today we're showing three pieces of artwork from our October 2024 series books! Let us know in the comments which books you'd like to see featured in our November 2024 Artwork Reveal!
Having contributed artwork to Osprey for the best part of twenty years it seemed appropriate, when asked by Osprey, that I might contribute a little insight to some of my creative processes throughout that time.
The first preview blog from Warlord Games is here for Bolt Action: Third Edition! To kick us off, hear from the team behind the game all about the new army composition system, ahead of release this September...
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