I still have a boxed game called Up Front on my shelf - a Squad Leader card game!
Yo, @Concord - did you ever get around to playing this?
I recently discovered this game almost 40 years after it's publication! It's not a board game but a true squad level man-to-man level card game. A friend of mine pulled it out recently as something to play together. I think it's a rather brilliant design, certainly far ahead of it's time. There's the original game with three WW2 combatants (Germany, Russia, and United States), the "Banzai" module which adds Imperial Japan and the United Kingdom, and the "Desert War" containing French and Italians.
There's a very good website which contains all the rules and other informative information available for download --> UpFront - The Squad Leader card game
And for those Steam users who own "Table Top Simulator", there is an excellent TTS Steam Workshop DLC by Haddock which you can subscribe.
In effect, once you download (and print) the Up Front / Banzai / Desert War PDF's for viewing, you have all that you need to play the game via Table Top Simulator, either solo or against another player.
I'm curious to know of any FGM members who play this game.