UPCOMING ITEMS CPQ 6-The Spanish Civil War: Otherwise known as World War 1.5. A curious mixture of World War I and II, this conflict in Spain served as the curtain raiser for World War II. CPQ 7-Red Storm Rising: The Bathtub version of World War III based on the Wilderness game run by the CITW back in 1988. CPQ 8-The Race to Messina: A scaled-down version of the campaign in Sicily in 1943, designed to allow players to compete with each other, in that the commanders of the US 7th Army will also command the German-Italian forces facing the British 8th Army, and the commanders of the British 8th Army will command the Germans facing the Americans. Suggestions for future supplements are sought as always. THE ANSWER TO LAST ISSUE'S QUESTION QUESTION: What senior American officer in late 1942 turned down an offer of the Congressional Medal of Honor on the grounds that he had not done anything above and beyond the call of duty? ANSWER: Dwight David Eisenhower was offered the Congressional Medal of Honor as reward for commanding TORCH, but turned it down on the grounds that he had not done anything above and beyond the call of duty. THIS ISSUE'S QUESTION QUESTION: What Soviet general went from commander of a military district to convict laborer in the Gulag to commander of a front line army in combat to Red Army chief of staff-all within 12 months? Back to Table of Contents -- Command Post Quarterly # 5 To Command Post Quarterly List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1994 by Greg Novak. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com