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It’s AAAAALLLIIIIVVVEEE (Dispatches From Valhalla)
Dispatches from Valhalla is up in both ebook and dead tree! All my Phases of Mars short stories, Wonder No More, “Winifred” (Usurper’s War origin story), and The Victorious Meeting together in one action packed volume!
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Ugaki, Lee, and a big helping of Taffy Three
Wonder No More is now up on Amazon. It’s a solid novella, clocking in at about 179 pages. If you ever wondered what would happen with a more aggressively handled Center Force, Vice Admiral Lee forming TF 34 early, and Taffy Three being, well, Taffy Three then this is the book for you! Yes,…
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Warship Wednesday: Torpedo Bombing
We’re going to resume Warship Wednesday by talking a bit about torpedo bombing. For those of you who may have stumbled upon this blog due to recent publications or pure happenstance, my primary bread and butter is alternate history. Specifically, my Usurper’s War series. The books of this series focus heavily on naval combat, reflecting an…
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SEAD for the Weasels!
Greetings all! Popping in really quick to announce the release of Eagles, Ravens, and Other Birds of Prey (Amazon affiliate link). If you were a fan of Barren SEAD, like to read about Wild Weasels, and/or want to get an account of how the USAF got its groove back, now’s your chance! In other news,…
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Pearl Harbor at 80 Years
For those of us of a certain age, it seems like “just yesterday” that we were passing Pearl Harbor’s 50th Anniversary. We had a World War II veteran as President, had seemingly just shook off our “Vietnam Syndrome” with a decisive victory that included the ship on which World War II ended, and several million…
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The Strategic Bombing Campaign Part VII: Shooters and Targets
Badasses, Part II: The Shooters As discussed in the last segment, in February 1944 General Carl Spaatz and his subordinate, Major General Jimmy Doolittle, decided it was time to take the fight to the Luftwaffe. However, deciding to go kick a whole hostile air force’s rear end was one thing. Getting the right folks to…
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Your Sky Is Our Sky…: The Strategic Bombing Campaign Part VI
You ever get a little distracted working on other projects (i.e., 3 anthologies and a full novel) and neglect an earlier project? Until I looked at the dates, there was no way I thought it’d been a over a year since I last wrote on air combat (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part…
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Legends of the fall
For old school fans of TF 1942 and various other World War II games, here is an update from the folks at Task Force Admiral. I’m glad to see that the game is getting a modern reboot, as I spent many hours playing the original. Really looking forward to carrier ops in the South Pacific.…
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Whoopsie and Updates
So, you know how sometimes you figure out you’re going to do something in a few months, set all the conditions, and then think “Of course I’ll remember that!”? Come to find out, when there’s a pandemic, cancer scare, and various other issues, you don’t remember to do that things because you’re busy doing something else.…
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Zeroes vs. Spitfires
Come friends, I’d like to provide a resource regarding one of aviation buffs favorite questions: “Which was better, the Zero or the Spitfire?” Note: Well yes, I know that’s actually an Oscar catching the business from one Adam Haynes above. Something about I might have wrote the book. However, half the time Allied pilots couldn’t tell…
