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U.S. entry into World War II was inevitable.

Seventy years after the attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II, the nation is once again at war. Read more

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PFC Roy Morris talked sparingly about his combat experience in World War II, but he never forgot the hedgerows below Cherbourg.

Like many true combat veterans, my father didn’t talk much about the war—in his case, World War II. We knew that he had served in France and Germany with the 79th Division, the famous “Cross of Lorraine” division. Read more

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Underground Guerrillas

Dear Editor,

I have enclosed three photos that show without any doubt that the photo used in the “Tito’s War” article is a fake. Read more

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The USS Buchanan achieved lasting fame with another navy and under another name.

The destroyer USS Buchanan (DD-131) was struck from the U.S. Navy roll on January 8, 1941, after being delivered to the British Royal Navy four months earlier to conclude the “Destroyers for Bases Deal,” a critical element of the Lend-Lease program. Read more

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The Power Of The Cloth Part 2

If the phrase “the clothes make the man” is true, then it is equally true that the uniform makes the soldier. Read more

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Reflections on “Sneak Attacks and “Dates of Infamy”

At some point during this magazine’s three-month “shelf life,” the date December 7 will fall. As human society has a penchant for observing the fifth- and 10th-year anniversaries of certain events, this December 7 will be a significant one—the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on American military bases in the Pacific that catapulted the United States into World War II and forever changed the course of history. Read more

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Late Fall 2011 Cover

Dear Editor:

I have being reading your magazine for several years and I would like to congratulate you on the fine job you are doing. Read more

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The Japanese perspective has been added to the brand new USS Arizona Memorial Visitors Center.

On December 7, 2010, a newly renovated and expanded visitors center at Pearl Harbor opened under the auspices of the National Park Service. Read more

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A Passion for World War II History

Dear Editor:

I first bought your magazine for $4.99 at a Borders bookstore and have since subscribed to it. I have enjoyed reading your product for the past three years. Read more

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Accused of insulting Hitler, Jackie the dog’s fate was superseded by the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

At the height of its power and with the Third Reich on the verge of initiating its colossal invasion of the Soviet Union, high-ranking members of the Nazi intelligence community literally went to the dogs. Read more

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The central figure from Band of Brothers, Richard Winters passed into history.

The soft-spoken airborne soldier who mused to himself at the end of D-Day that should God grant him the opportunity to survive the war he would ask nothing more than a quiet little plot of land where he could live in peace has passed away. Read more

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Marianas Turkey Shoot

Dear Editor:

I just finished reading David Lippman’s article on the Marianas Turkey Shoot in the March 2011 issue of WWII History magazine. Read more

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World War II as a Campaign Issue?

In the recently concluded midterm elections, who could have guessed that World War II would have been a campaign issue for one of the candidates? Read more

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Aschaffenberg

Dear Editor:

I read with interest the story of the Battle of Aschaffenburg (January 2011 issue). I was stationed in the village of Munster bei Dieburg in the mid to late 1980s and was in Aschaffenburg many times as it was about 15 miles away. Read more

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Bodies of Japanese Casualties Discovered on Iwo Jima.

While most images of a tourist trip to Hawaii have to do with beautiful beaches, hula skirts, and great surfing, a student of history must make it a point to visit two sites, Pearl Harbor and the Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, commonly referred to as the Punchbowl because of its distinctive location within the crater of a extinct volcano in sight of modern downtown Honolulu. Read more

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Value of World War II History

Dear Editor:

I am an eighth-grader. I am also a Boy Scout in Troop 456 in Wildwood, Missouri. I read your magazine a lot. Read more

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Eileen Nearne was the war heroine next door.

To the neighbors, she was an elderly woman who lived an unassuming life, loved her cats, kept to herself, and seemed even somewhat reclusive. Read more

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Trouble In The Winds

The Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941—a “Day of Infamy,” as President Franklin D. Roosevelt described it—left the American Pacific Fleet in almost total ruin, plunged the United States into World War II, and set off a controversy regarding the events that led up to the attack that is still being hotly debated. Read more

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A Nation at War

It has become my nightly habit to take a half-hour walk around my Denver neighborhood, during which time I have come to notice a number of homes displaying the American flag. Read more

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The Incessant Rains of the Green Inferno

As dawn broke on December 26, 1943, the unmistakable silhouettes of American warships could be easily seen by the Japanese defenders on New Britain Island. Read more