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A rare death photo of Ernie Pyle surfaces after years in obscurity.
In February of this year, decades after his death on the Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, a photo of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle surfaced. Read more
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Anne Frank’s chestnut tree is threatened by disease and the axe.
More than 60 years after her death, Anne Frank, the young girl who was a virtual prisoner in the famous “annex” as she, her family, and others hid from the Nazi Jew hunters in Amsterdam, remains an icon of optimism and belief in the triumph of the human spirit. Read more
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More on Patton’s Dyslexia
Dear Editor,
Please allow me to express my displeasure concerning the article in the January 2008 issue, “A Life Shaped by Dyslexia” by Jeansonne et al. Read more
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The death of Paul Tibbets truly signifies the end of an era.
When Colonel Paul Tibbets and his crew departed their base on the island of Tinian in the Marianas on the morning of August 6, 1945, their Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber carried with it a weapon that would change the world. Read more
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Breaking New Ground
Dear Sir,
I have not subscribed to your magazine so far, and the reason is simple: heading down to the local magazine racks on a weekend to find out what is in store in the forthcoming issue, and being pleasantly surprised with my new find, is not a pleasure I want to deny myself. Read more
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Red Air Force Pe-2
Dear Editor:
I read with interest George Tipton Wilson’s article “Red Air Force Heroines” in the September issue of WWII History. Read more
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Sergeant Martin Troy’s remains are recovered 63 years after his death.
Thousands of military personnel killed in action during World War II rest in unmarked graves, high on mountaintops, beneath the ocean amid the wreckage of sunken ships, in remote jungles and arid deserts. Read more
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ATC versus CNAC at the Hump
Dear Editor:
The article in your July 2007 issue, “Over the Hump” by Sam McGowan was an ambitious undertaking as the statistics by the ATC (Air Transport Command), U.S. Read more
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Kurt Waldheim’s diplomatic service was tainted by his Nazi past.
When former United Nations Secretary General and President of Austria Kurt Waldheim died on June 14 of this year, he had been officially barred from entry into the United States for 20 years. Read more
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Leaders would do well to remember Dwight Eisenhower’s warning: “Every war will astonish you.”
With the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq still overshadowing all aspects of American life, it is too early to predict what historians will say definitively about the enterprise. Read more
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Debacle at Luban
Dear Editor:
I read the “Debacle at Luban” article in your July 2007 issue with much interest. The study of this unknown campaign gives the reader a clearer insight than he can get from the study of famous battles which are distorted by myth and legend. Read more
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The Desert Fox was respected by both friend and foe.
By the time Erwin Rommel arrived in the Libyan desert in February 1941 he was already a national hero in Germany. Read more
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Americans at the Bulge
Dear Editor:
As the author of Patton’s Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, I read with great interest Major General Michael Reynolds’s article (March 2007 issue) regarding the 1st SS Panzer Division’s attack against the east side of the Bastogne relief corridor. Read more
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The summer of 1942 doomed the expansion of Imperial Japan.
Sixty-five years ago, the fortunes of war in the Pacific changed irreversibly for the Japanese. Since 1931, Japan’s army had asserted control over territory on the continent of Asia, brushing aside Chinese resistance, condemnation and political pressure from other nations, and most recently, the Allied military. Read more
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Sherman versus Tiger
Dear Sir,
Isn’t it time you told it like it really was about the breakout from the Normandy beach-head? That the Sherman tanks the Allies had were absolutely no match for the German tanks, and that the Americans had refused to countenance attempts by the British to upgrade the Sherman’s peashooter gun with the Firefly because they couldn’t accept a non-American gun on an American tank? Read more
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On the fourth Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino, the Polish II Corps succeeded.
In the spring of 1944, the Italian Campaign was one of frustration and stalemate for the Allies. General Mark Clark’s Fifth Army had been stymied at Cassino, and strong German defenses barred the gateway to the valley of the Liri River and Rome, the Eternal City and capital of fascist Italy. Read more
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The specter of Nazi war crimes continues to cast a shadow in the 21st century.
A recent news story serves as a reminder that more than 60 years after the end of World War II, the pursuit and punishment of Nazi war criminals remains relentless. Read more
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Hooray for Hollywood!
Dear Editor,
I enjoyed Flint Whitlock’s article on the film stars in WWII, but I think you forgot one. Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front and others) served as a medic in the Philippines in 1944-1945. Read more
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The late AP photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the spirit of the Marine Corps.
When U.S. Marines stormed ashore on the island of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, American involvement in World War II was in its fourth year. Read more
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Battle Off Samar
Dear Editor,
In the September 2006 issue of your magazine there is, on page 42, an article about the Battle off Samar. Read more
