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March
1989
Contents - Editorial; Armament (Only the Germans had a robot wandering the battlefield - their diminutive giant called "Goliath"); Undercover (For the U.S. Marines in the Pacific, Navaho "code-talkers" were a secret communications weapon until the war's end); Personality (Field Marshal Model earned his nickname as Hitler's "fireman" - until the bitter end); Books (As the Japanese swept south, Australia faced her peril with miles upon miles of defenseless northern shoreline...and not much else); Marauders' Trail Of Fire ("Vinegar Joe" Stilwell and Merrill's Marauders combined forces for the rough, supply-starved campaign against the Japanese airbase at tongue-twisting Myitkyina); Mercy Flight In Peril (For two PBY's sent to evacuate personnel from beseiged Corregidor, getting there was one story. Getting back was another); Hurricane At Dawn (The airmen of No. 451 Squadron awoke one morning to find German panzers parked in their desert airstrip. In seconds, the scramble was on); Deadly River Bank (At the Moro river in Italy, the "Hasty P's" showed why they would earn more battle honors than any other Canadian Army regiment in the war)
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July
1989
Contents - Editorial; Undercover (The Australian-mounted Z-Force's kayak raid on Singapore was totally unexpected by the Japanese occupiers); Armament ("Screaming Meemies" was the right name for the ferocious German rocket so evident at the Battle of the Bulge); Personality (In North Africa, the Italian wolf found itself outfoxed by a "Little Terrier"); Books (To Germany's regret, strategic bombing was given different priorities by the Luftwaffe and the USAAF); Long Patrol Extended (Carlson's Marine Raiders plunged into Guadalcanal's jungles - not to appear for more than a month); Imperfect Victory Assured (The Falaise pocket was a great Allied victory, turning loose the powerful forces that landed at Normandy, but it was also somewhat of a flawed victory in its outcome); Aboard The Athenia (September 3, 1939 - A little after 11 o'clock that morning, a notice posted on the ship's bulletin board announced England was at war with Germany. Conversations aboard Athenia faltered); Galloping Ghost Surrounded (Running the Sunda Strait after the disastrous Battle of the Java Sea, the American Houston and Australian Perch ran smack into the Japanese landing force - and it's protective warships)
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September
1993
Contents - Editorial; Personality ("Watch Bong" remarked General George C. Kenney on December 27, 1942, "he'll probably be the top ace of this war"); Armament (After seeing the Piper Cub land on LST 776's cable, a nearby destroyer blinked: "We see it but we don't believe it"); Undercover (More than just "a tiny clique of officers" tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II); Books (The British and Americans were inventive in obtaining intelligence, but proved hesitant and mistrustful in sharing it); Perspectives (Asked by a fan why he was in the New York Yankee outfield, Paul Waner replied, "Because Joe DiMaggio is in the army"); WWII Marketplace; Hope Springs Eternal ("I'm happy to be here at Schofield", Bob Hope grinned from the stage. "I'm a little late, The invitation read December 7. That's an inside joke for those of you who remember Pearl Harbor."); Flash Of Darkness (It began as a routine morning in Seeadler Harbor. Suddenly a tremendous explosion rocked the vast anchorage, and the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood was gone); Gallant Sortie Survived (Lieutenant John F. Kennedy and the crew of PT-109 looked into the black night for something to shoot at, But when they saw Amagiri bearing down on them, it was too late); Sergeants Oddyssey (The 116th Panzer Division was a formidible foe, and in it's ranks was a battle-hardened Wehrmacht veteran who had grown up in America - in Holland, Michigan)
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January
1994
Contents - Editorial; Undercover ("Stop or I fire. Don't use your radio" signaled Atlantis as her camouflage dropped and a German battle flag ran up her mast); Armament (The initial report of the Tiger's 88 signaled the demise of the entire Soviet armored column); Personality (Facing the might of the Afrika Korps, Bir Hakeim's garrison included 3,723 Foreign Legionnaires and Susan Travers, une Legionnaire); Books (A galaxy of stars and an obedient dog named Tyrone made USO memories for singer Maxine Andrews); Perspectives (The tall, thin man predicting German victory was American hero Charles Lindbergh); WWWI Marketplace; Allied Agony At Anzio (British Prime Minister Winston Churchill found American Maj. Gen. John P. Lucas' cautiousness at Anzio infuriating. "I had hoped we were hurling a wildcat into the shore," he thundered, "but all we got was a stranded whale."); Soviet Encirclement Thwarted (In order to manitain the momentum of a general offensive, Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev's advance units had bypassed Kirovograd. But now the stubbornly defended city was disrupting his supply and communications network); Specialist In Diversion ("Overf the top, men," whispered Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., when he and his Beach Jumpers reached the stone wall. "I then noticed that there were no vines or footholds on the wall," he recalled. "I realized that this wasn't the movies..."); Commander's Calculated Risk (The Americans had made some costly mistake when they invaded Tarawa in November, 1943. For Kwajalein, the preliminary bombardment would be more intense)
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March
1994
Contents - Editorial; Armament (Sailors aboard the nearby Houston actually saw daylight between Marblehead's keel and the sea); Undercover (The valiant Maquisards rained grenades upon the enemy struggling up the steep cliffs); Personality (Sharing his Russian invasion plans with Ion Antoneseu, Adolf Hitler asserted, "I don' need fanatics, but a healthy Rumanian army."); Books (When the 6th Ranger Battalion entered Cabanatuan, it's men were shocked at the sight of the former prisoners); Perspectives (The dark days of WWII were the backdrop for the golden age of radio news and entertainment); WWII Marketplace; Week Of Relentless Bombing (For seven consecutive days in February 1944 the Allied air forces assaulted cities and military targets inside the Third Reich. Long-range fighter escorts made the BF-109s and Fw-190s of the Luftwaffe another quarry); Leapfrogging The Coast (To hasten the advance along the coast of western Newe Guinea, General Douglass MacArthur planned to bypass the heavily defended areas of Wewak and Hansa Bay. Instead, he made a 560-mile jump to Hollandia); Hollywood Goes To War (How serious was the film industry in a United States on the brink of war! Enough for the Germans to label Confessions Of A Nazi Spy the product of a "conspiracy" and for isolationist Senator Gerald Nye to denounce Sergeant York as "war hysteria"); The Real Great Escape (An underground cottage in escape accessories existed at Stalag Luft III. But all of those creations would be worthless if the Allied prisoners could not tunnel their way out)
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May
1994
Contents - Editorial; Undercover (Rubber tanks, false radio traffic and George Patton pulled off the scam of the century - Operation Fortitude); Personality ("Good weather for 24 to 26 hours" predicted James Martin Stagg, and the invasion of Europe was set in motion); Armament (Unusual but effective, "Hobos Funnies" hit the beaches of Normandy and served until victory was achieved); Books (Author Stephen Ambrose recounts the story of D-Day from the soldier's point of view); Perspectives (Two generals with key D-Day roles, Jimmy Doolittle and Matt Ridgeway, left a legacy of bravery and service to their country); WWII Marketplace; D-Day's Mighty Host (Operation Overlord was the greatest military endeavor ever undertaken - and in many ways the greatest gamble. Success meant victory in Europe; failure, the unthinkable, an indefinite prolonging of the war); Invasion's Driving Force (June 6, 1944 was D-Day for General Dwight D. Eisenhower and graduation day for his son John S. D. Eisenhower half a world away at West Point); Remembering Omaha's Ordeal ("Two kinds of people are going to stay on this beach," said Colonel George A. Taylor to the paralyzed troops of his 16th Regimental Combat Team, "the dead and those who are going to die. Now let's get the hell out of here!"); Airborne Flank Attack (On June 4, 1944, Brigadier James Hill briefed his 3rd Parachute Brigade on its mission to Normandy. "Gentlemen," he warned, "in spite of your excellent training and orders, do not be daunted if chaos reigns. It undoubtedly will.")
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July
1994
Contents - Editorial; Personality ("Can the dead give evidence" asked Konstantin Rokossovsky while on trial for his life. Later, he would stand up to Stalin); Undercover (General Maxwell Taylor risked being shot as a spy to gauge Italian support for an airborne assault on Rome); Armament (On September 1, 1943, the U.S. Navy unleashed an awesome new weapon - The Essex-class aircraft carriers); Reviews ("Old Hickory" stood up to German steel at Mortain to preserve the Allied breakout); Perspectives (Serious logistics problems meant the Allied successes in the late summer of 1944 would not result in victory by Christmas); WWII Marketplace; Axis Capital Captured (Rome was in Allied hands, but to many officers, General Mark W. Clark's victory was hollow, as thousands of German soldiers escaped to fight another day); Greatest Aircraft Carrier Duel (Off Saipan, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance waited for Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa to make the first move - not out of timidity, but out of confidence that his carrier planes could beat back anything the Japanese threw at him); Breakout's Final Barrier (The flag-draped coffin of Major Thomas D. Howe, reverently placed before the ruins of the Ste. Croix Church, symbolized the American sacrifice for the strategically important town of St. Lo); Disastrous Reckoning Day (Refusing to deviate from Hitler's orders, Generalfeldmarschall Ernst Busch led Army Group Center to destruction on the Eastern Front - a debacle whose magnitude exceeded that of Stalingrad)
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March
1995
Contents - Editorial; Armament (Rushed from blueprint into battle, the landing ship, tank (LST) proved to be a logistical wonder); Personality (Mysterious Martin Bormann was the only high-ranking Nazi tried in absentia at Nuremberg); Undercover (The Allies gained a windfall of technical information through Project Lusty and Paperclip); Reviews (Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley failed to tighten the noose in time to trap thousands os German soldiers at Falaise); Perspectives ("We should go as far as Berlin...!" roared FDR. Postwar Germany, however, would have a much different look than he envisioned); WWII Marketplace; Siege And Surrender Of Konigsberg (Thousands of refugees fled the advancing Red Army, but the haven they sought, the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg, also became their prison); Luftwaffe Ace Gunther Rall Remembers (Gunther Rall became a legend flying the Messerschmitt Bf-109, scoring 275 aerial victories against the aerial armadas of Britain, Russia and the United States); Remagen: The Allies Bridge To Victory (At Remagen, 2nd Lt. Karl Timmermann beame the first officer of an invading army to fight his way across the Rhine River since the age of Napoleon); Carrier Franklin's Valiant Fight For Life (Wracked by a pair of Japanese bombs, huge internal explosions and raging fires, the carrier USS Franklin refused to die - nor was her crew prepared to let her)
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March
2002
Contents - Angels' Nightmare On Leyte (The 11th Airborne Division faced some of the most vicious combat of World War II during its operations to clear Leyte, in the Philippines. In an excerpt from the forthcoming book Into The Rising Sun, veterans of the 11th recount for the first time their gruesome memories of the fight around Ormoc); Tragic Voyage Of Junyo Maru (Japan's refusal to honor the rules of war and place Red Cross flags on ships transporting POWs led to horrific consequences for the men on board Junyo Maru); The Fuhrer's Fighters (By 1943, Adolf Hitler's once feared air force was fighting for its life in the skies over Germany. Faced with overwhelming numbers of Allied fighters and bombers, the men of the Luftwaffe fought bitterly to change the course of the European air war. This 16-page aviation art section features 24 paintings by the finest contemporary artists commemorating the last stand of the Luftwaffe) Departments - Editorial; Communiques; Armament (Although only arrived in service too late to alter the course of the war in Europe, the first jet aircraft made technological advances that would usher in a new age of aerial warcraft); Personality (An opportunity to earn a little bit of extra money working part time set William Frederic Friedman on the road to becoming the greatest code-breaker of all time); Perspectives (Efforts are underway to save U-505, the last enemy vessel captured by the U.S. Navy on the high seas, for future generations of sailors and scholars); Reviews (The fate of France's great wineries provices a telling example of the price of German occupation); Undercover (An unfortunate shot led to the defeat of a daring British Commonwealth Commando raid on Singapore Harbor); Almanac; WWII Marketplace
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September
2002
Contents - Final Thoughts Of The Blond Knight (In the final interview before his death, 352-voctory ace of aces Erich Hartmann talked candidly about his World War II experience and reflected on an amazing career in the Luftwaffe); A Very Savage Operation (For the untried men of the 126th Infantry Regiment, the brutality of the war in New Guinea began even before the first shot was fired); Ambushed By The Afrika Korps (As they began their advance on Sidi Bou Zid, Tunisia, the supremely confident men of the U.S. 1st Armored Regiment had no idea they were driving into a trap) Departments - Editorial; Communiques; NEW WWII Today; One Man's War (Al DeFrancisco, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division); Commands (Number 485 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force); Perspectives (More than half a century after the end of World War II, a group of American veterans finally have a chance to thank their Kachin comrades for their efforts in Burma); Armament (America's only production lightweight fighter of World War II never served in the Army Air Forces); Personality (Known among his fellow prisoners as "Big X", Roger Bushell had already made five escape attempts before leading the Great Escape); Undercover (Desperate to remove the threat to its convoys, the Royal Navy sent tiny X-craft submarines to sink Tirpitz, the largest warship in the German fleet); Reviews; WWII Marketplace; Almanac
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November
2002
Contents - 'Chesty' Puller's Epic Stand (In October 1942, the fate of the American position on Guadalcanal rested with Lt. Col. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller and his 7th Marines); Triumph Of Operation Torch (Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, was born of the rancourous debate between British and American planners on how best to fight the war against Adolf Hitler's Germany); On Campaign With The Bengal Lancers (During his time with the famed Bengal Lancers, Brigadier Francis Ingall witnessed the twilight of Britain's wars of empire and the last days of the British-controlled Indian army); Thunderbolt Strike On The Road To Montelimar (When Republic P-47 fighters from the 79th Fighter Group swarmed into the Rhone River valley in August 1944, they demonstrated the brutal effectiveness of tactical air power) Departments - Editorial; Communiques; Commands (The 201st Fighter Squadron, Mexican Expeditionary Air Force); WWII Today; One Man's War (George Pirnik flew two combat tours in the Eighth Air Force and then volunteered to serve in Korea and, later, in Vietnam); Armament (Charles F. Brannock's shoe-fitting device may have been one of the most unglamorous, but essential, devices in the American arsenal); Undercover (In October 1944, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Eastwind unexpectedly came upon the half-frozen crew of a German trawler off the coast of Greenland); Personality (The forgotten ace of an unheralded air force, Teresio Martinoli deserves to be remembered as Italy's ace of aces); Perspectives (The wreck of the Liberty Ship John Barry holds the secrets of a failed top-secret mission and millions of dollars in silver); Reviews; WWII Marketplace
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