Retired U.S. Marine captain Dale Dye is the man Hollywood has called on to make sure their military facts are straight and combat scenes realistic in movies and television productions from “The Last of the Mohicans” to “The Pacific.”

A historical synopsis of the battles depicted in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, provided by Armchair General to give viewers the background and outcomes of the Guadalcanal, New Britain, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns.

Alvin B. Orsland recounts his personal experiences in the battle for Iwo Jima, where only 36 Marines of the 365 in his company were not killed or seriously wounded.

Battlestations Pacific is all about the pure joy of shooting down enemy aircraft, dropping bombs on their ships, and pounding them with your ship’s heavy guns. An ArmchairGeneral.com review.

World War II veteran Harlan Johnson went from the Illinois State Militia to the U.S. Navy. In this exclusive interview, he talks about his militia activity and Navy training. In part two of the interview, he tells about surviving a kamikaze attack.

An interview with Leon Cooper, a WW II veteran who created The Military Channel documentary Return to Tarawa, the Leon Cooper Story, to expose what he calls an American disgrace, forgotten remains and the continuing desecration of Tarawa’s Red Beach.

Sound general quarters! War Plan Pacific, the latest naval grand strategy war game from Shrapnel Games, is reviewed onArmchairGeneral.com.

The historic outcome and an analysis, with map, of the Australian attack under Lieutenant Colonel C.J. “Clem” Cummings against the Japanese on Buna.

A look at the week’s hottest Armchair General forum topics. Debates include Napoleon’s greatest battles, a comparison of the American and French revolutions, and the controversy over whether the U.S. should have used atomic bombs against Japan.

Armchair General game reviewer Robert Delwood looks at GMT’s grand strategy Pacific War game, “Asia Engulfed, The Second World War in Asia 1941 – 1945,” and finds it to be an elegant, deep game that rewards good planning.