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Disaster In A Bright Blue Sky
By Allyn VannoyLieutenant Robert Sabel struggled to get his Fortress, the Rusty Lode, home. Eight B-17s of his bomb group, the 390th, had already been shot from the sky. Read more
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Chase’s Flying Columns
By Ed MillerSanto Tòmas University, Manila, Philippines, about 9:00 p.m., February 3, 1945: Louis G. Hubele, a 45-year-old civilian internee of the Japanese, heard more than the usual amount of vehicle traffic on España Street. Read more
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D-Day Disaster at the Merville Battery
By Flint WhitlockThe small French village of Merville (1940 population: 470), located just south of the coastal town of Franceville-Plage, had as its neighbor on its southern fringe an unwelcome German battery consisting of four concrete bunkers housing artillery pieces that pointed northwest toward Ouistreham and the mouth of the Orne River. Read more
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For Love and Country
By Walt Larimore and Mike YorkeyDuring World War II, the U.S. Army determined that the typical frontline infantryman couldn’t take much more than 200 to 240 days of combat before mentally falling apart. Read more
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2nd Lt. Reba Z. Whittle, flight nurse—and the only female P.O.W. in the ETO
By Stephen D. LutzOn September 27, 1944, a C-47 Skytrain named “Mary,” tail number 43-48395, prepared to depart Royal Air Force Base Wharton in Lancashire, England, filled with assorted medical supplies destined for a U.S. Read more
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Ukraine 2022: Echoes of 1939
Unlike the weekly current-events magazines, WWII Quarterly is edited, assembled, and sent off to the printer well in advance of the day you receive it in the mail or pick it up at the newsstand. Read more
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From the Alamo to the Riviera
By Bruce L. BragerOperation Anvil, the invasion of southern France, was originally planned for June 1944, the same time as the Normandy invasion. Read more
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Stumbling Over History
Has this ever happened to you? You’re on vacation or taking a trip and unexpectedly you stumble across a piece of history you didn’t even know existed. Read more
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Willow Run Bomber Plant
They said it couldn’t be done. Doubters chided Henry Ford for declaring that his Willow Run Bomber Plant could turn out a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber every hour. Read more
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Off Duty, German Style
By G. Paul GarsonWar has been described as long periods of extreme boredom punctuated by brief moments of extreme terror. Read more
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Bloody Aachen
By Richard RuleBy the time of the waning of the summer of 1944 in western Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s victorious Allied armies had forged a battle line from the Dutch province of Maastricht in the north to Belfort near the Swiss border in the south. Read more
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The Rise and Fall of Dazzle Camouflage
By Joseph Frantiska Jr.What do Pablo Picasso, the U.S. Navy, the British Royal Navy, and the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) have in common? Read more
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Malayan Melange
By John W. Osborn, Jr.One of World War II’s longest, least known guerrilla resistance campaigns was fought in the depths of the jungle covering 80 percent of Malaya’s 50,850 square miles; in it the most unlikely of friendships would develop, leading to a remarkable meeting, then parting, a decade later. Read more
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The Second Pearl Harbor
By Gene E. SaleckerThe first explosion came as a complete surprise to everyone around Pearl Harbor. The Sunday had started out clear and bright, but the sky quickly darkened as great clouds of thick black smoke rose high above the burning ships. Read more
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Tigers in the Sky
By Christopher MiskimonAmerica had been at war for less than two weeks when Claire Chennault watched his American Volunteer Group (AVG) take off for its first combat mission. Read more
