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Bushmasters’ Company B

Dear Editor:

I enjoyed Blaine Taylor’s “Top Secret” column in the May 2004 issue. However, for future reference, you may want to review one minor technical error. Read more

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What went wrong at Market Garden?

While the American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions were engaged in fighting near the Dutch towns of Eindhoven and Nijmegen, respectively, and the British XXX Corps struggled up the 100 miles of narrow road from the Belgian frontier toward Arnhem, Operation Market Garden very likely was already lost. Read more

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Colonel Hans Oster

Adolf Hitler won victory after victory in the late 1930s: the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, the incorporation of Austria into the Reich in 1938, the acquisition of the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in 1938 followed by the control over much of the remainder of Czechoslovakia six months later, and then the conquest of Poland in September 1939. Read more

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Paul E. Ison at Okinawa

Dear Editor:

The cover of the May 2004 issue is described as, “A U.S. Marine dashes up the beach on Okinawa.” Read more

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Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a madman—an intolerable situation.

Although the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has thus far proved a frustrating enterprise for inspectors, there remains no doubt that such weapons were once in the hands of Saddam Hussein and his lieutenants. Read more

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Yanks in the RAF

As they boarded the train for Montreal, the two Americans tried to look as inconspicuous as possible. Read more

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Pointe du Hoc: D Plus 60 Years

The gunfire has receded with the tide. One of the most valuable pieces of real estate in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, which once crawled with American GIs and German soldiers, now welcomes peaceful visitors from around the world. Read more

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“We’ll Start the War from Here”

Peering through the predawn darkness at the slowly emerging shoreline 300 yards away, the little man with the famous name prepared once again to set foot in France as a soldier of the liberation. Read more

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World War II Music

Some of the most memorable and enduring popular music of the 20th century was written during World War II. Read more

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General Andrei Vlasov

Dear Editor:

I was considering whether to renew my subscription to WWII History. I then received the January 2004 issue and noticed the article, “Free French Stand at Bir Hachiem,” by Edward L. Read more

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Operation Downfall would have been the most costly military effort in U.S. history.

As terrible as the fighting at Okinawa had been, and as costly as the struggle had proven to be in terms of lives and equipment, there is no doubt that the nearly two-month struggle for control of the island would have been dwarfed by what might have come next. Read more

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Japanese Aircraft Carrier

Dear WWII History:

There was a significant identification error on page 78 of the November 2003 issue. The Japanese aircraft carrier shown in the photograph was identified as the Hiryu, whereas, in fact, it is the Kaga. Read more

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Operation Sea Lion, the Nazi plan to invade Britain, never got beyond the planning stage.

Without doubt, the fall of France was an unmitigated disaster for the Allied cause. However, for all its failures in command, strategy, and tactics, it could have been worse.During Read more

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P-38 Lightning Restored

Only a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor a 24-four-year-old pilot, Lieutenant Brad McManus, scanned the sky as he was taught to do as an air cadet. Read more

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Colonel Charles Hunter

Dear Editor,

I would like to make some corrections to Michael Hull’s otherwise excellent article, “Frank Merrill’s Jungle Trek” (July 2003). Read more

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Bomber Pilot Colin Kelly

The days following Pearl Harbor were grim ones for the United States. Headlines screamed of one Japanese victory after another. Read more

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The B-26 Marauder

Of all the better-known Allied aircraft of World War II, the most controversial was Martin’s B-26 Marauder, a twin-engine cigar-shaped medium bomber that was loved by some and hated by many. Read more

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Bushmasters’ Baptism of Fire: The Battle of Lone Tree Hill

Lieutenant General Hachiro Tagami, commanding officer of the 36th Division, dubbed the Tiger Division, did not like the news he had received from Imperial Army Headquarters in Tokyo. Read more

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USS Houston

Dear WWII History:

My compliments on your fine article by John Wukovits in the November 2003 issue, “Heroic Fight Against Long Odds,” describing the last battle of the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth and the American heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA 30). Read more

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General Curtis LeMay was the foremost advocate of massive B-29 raids on Japan.

The nightmarish vision that the Japanese high command had hoped to forestall with its Special Attack Unit raids on American airbases in the Marianas did, with devastating effect, become reality in the spring of 1945. Read more