Volume 4, No. 6
Cover: Germans advance through Russia in this 1942 photo from Signal magazine. (Photo: Bridgeman Art Library/Private
Collection
November 2005
WWII History
Say the words “pocket battleship” and up pops the name Admiral Graf Spee. Her two sister ships, the Deutschland/Lutzow and the Admiral Scheer are virtually unknown to Americans. Read more
November 2005
WWII History
Malmédy is an attractive and prosperous town situated in eastern Belgium, 15 miles from the German border. Read more
November 2005
WWII History
In April 1940, Adolf Hitler’s SS began building a walled compound in occupied Warsaw in which to imprison Jews who had survived the previous autumn’s bitter fighting as the German juggernaut romped through western Poland. Read more
November 2005
WWII History
What was it like to come to grips with the enemy, to fight and survive combat? For each men, the experience was different; for many, it was almost impossible to relate to those behind the lines or an ocean away. Read more
November 2005
WWII History
Many people have heard of the six American Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighters that actually got off the ground and contested the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Read more
November 2005
WWII History
In the popular history of World War II, the assertion that the United States was caught unprepared in Hawaii and the Philippines has become widely accepted as fact. Read more
November 2005
WWII History, Editorial
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so an old saying goes. Perhaps it was the grandest exercise in political pragmatism and expediency that the world has ever known. Read more
November 2005
WWII History, Comminique
Dear Editors,
I enclose a copy of pages 60 and 61 of your May 2005 issue, which may contain an error. Read more
November 2005
WWII History, Top Secret
On September 17, 1939, in the wake of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, the Soviet Red Army crossed the Polish frontier from the east. Read more
November 2005
WWII History, Ordnance
On Saturday, December 6, 1941, the repair ship USS Vestal eased alongside the USS Arizona at her berth at Pearl Harbor. Read more
November 2005
WWII History, Profiles
Panic and confusion reigned across France as the bright, warm spring of 1940 turned into summer.
Blitzkrieg, a brutal new mode of warfare, was on the loose in Western Europe. Read more
November 2005
WWII History, Books
The German U-boat U-505 was, according to author James E. Read more
November 2005
WWII History, Insight
By early autumn, he was taking 60 pills a day. They ranged from “speed” to the poison strychnine. Read more
November 2005
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
First off is a very personal, one on one take on the Second World War. Published by Namco and available on the Xbox, PC, and PS2 is Sniper Elite. Read more
