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The Screaming Eagles in Hitler’s Nest
By Kevin M. HymelFor the Western Allies, the war in Europe ended with more of a whimper than a bang. Read more
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C.R. Smith
Dear Editor:
I awaited the “Dispatches” to question why C.R. Smith’s name was not acknowledged in “Anything, Anywhere, Anytime” (July 2002) about the Air Transport Command (ATC), written by Sam McGowan. Read more
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Adolf Eichmann eluded the authorities for 17 years after the end of WWII.
The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague, ended the notorious career of one of the most ruthless and anti-Semitic Nazis. Read more
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Kokoda Kudos
Dear Editor:
I certainly enjoyed A.B. Feuer’s article on the Battle of the Kokoda Track (October 2002). In the summer of 1962 I was stationed with the 1370th Photomapping Wing’s Aerial Survey Team #5 at Port Moresby, New Guinea. Read more
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Attack on a Tank
By Robert Ritter von Greim, Leader of Jasta 34b and Jagdgruppe 10Translated and with comments by O’Brien Browne
This combat diary account by Robert Ritter von Greim describes the frantic attempts of the German Air Force to halt Allied attacks in the closing months of WWI. Read more
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Uncommon Valor
By Eric T. Baker
Uncommon Valor: Campaign for the South Pacific is new from Matrix Games. Together with legendary game designer Gary Grigsby, Joel Billings and Keith Brors of 2by3Games have created an operational campaign game of the South Pacific during World War II. Read more
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Rommel and Caporetto
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I was generally static, stultifying, and unimaginative. Read more
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Revolutionary Education
Dear Editor:
What an absolute delight to read James K. Swisher’s article, “Duel in the Backwoods” (December 2002), about the Battle of Cowpens and General Daniel Morgan’s superb generalship and guiding hand during this battle. Read more
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Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
History is as solid as bricks. Things happened and they can’t be changed. But they can be seen with a fresh eye, or they can be noted for effects not apparent at the time. Read more
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Stunning English Victory at Poitiers
By John E. SpindlerDenis de Morbecque, an exiled French knight in the service of the English crown, thought the fighting in the hawthorn hedgerows near Poitiers would never end. Read more
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The exhaustive efforts of dedicated searchers brought home the remains of six U.S. soldiers from shallow graves in Europe.
By Bill WarnockThe metal detector buzzed loudly. Its operator, Jean-Louis Seel, used his foot to unearth a dog tag beneath the pine needles. Read more
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1st Division on D-day
Dear Sirs:
I have enjoyed your new magazine for its subject matter, layout, and graphics. Your challenge is to present articles on subject matter that has been covered for many years by world-class writers such as Cornelius Ryan, Carlo d’Este, and lately Adrian Lewis about D-day. Read more
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A Magnitude Never Imagined
By Mike McLaughlinThe Pearl Harbor disaster presented the U.S. Navy with a sobering question: how to recover? More than 2,000 men had died. Read more
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Edwin P. Hoyt’s ‘The U-Boat Wars’
By Michael D. HullWhen Chancellor Adolf Hitler started rearming Germany in 1934, his submarine force commander, Admiral Karl Doenitz, asked for men and materiel to create a fleet of 300 U-boats. Read more
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The Richard I. Bong WWII Heritage Center is a lasting tribute to veterans.
On the same day that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, America’s ace of aces, Richard Ira Bong, was killed while test piloting the experimental Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star in Burbank, Calif. Read more
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Heroic Defense of Hong Kong
By David H. LippmanWith rhythmic tread, the Canadian soldiers marched behind the bagpipers of the Royal Scots up Nathan Road. Read more
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Colin White’s “1797, Nelson’s Year of Destiny”
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)That would be absurd,” responded the legendary Royal Navy Admiral Sir (later Lord) Horatio Nelson to the patriotic lady asking to rename her pub the Nelson Arms, “seeing I have but one.” Read more
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Ironclads at War
Dear Mr. Stoddard,
I have just finished reading Pedro Garcia’s “Highway to Victory” (October 2002). In it he states that “only three of these vessels [ironclads] ever became operational, none proving capable of going to sea.” Read more
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Valcour Island and American Independence
Strange it is that American independence owes not only to a crushing American defeat but also to an infamous American traitor. Read more
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Roscoe C. Blunt, Jr.’s “Foot Soldier”
By Michael D. HullA few days after German panzers rumbled through the chill, foggy Ardennes Forest early on December 16, 1944, breaching thinly held American lines and causing widespread confusion and near panic, a number of Allied units were rushed in to plug the gaps. Read more
