Volume 19, No. 3
Cover: A German infantryman takes cover during an advance, somewhere on the Eastern Front.
Photo: SZ Photo / Alamy
April 2020
WWII History
“This was war deluxe,” observed Brig. Gen. Frederic B. Butler as his command car entered the French village of Quincon during Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of France in the country’s southern region, in August 1944. Read more
April 2020
WWII History
Once again, the Japanese regarded an upcoming naval engagement as the “decisive battle,” but it had been two years since her aircraft carriers and battleships had emerged from their Inland Sea lairs to menace the United States Navy. Read more
April 2020
WWII History
After the brutal defensive fighting during the winter of 1941-1942, Adolf Hitler was ready for another round with the Russians. Read more
April 2020
WWII History
Second Lieutenant William Capron first saw the attacking Messerschmitts as black dots descending rapidly to ambush his squadron of American fighter-bombers. Read more
April 2020
WWII History, Editorial
On April 20, 1945, Adolf Hitler observed his 56th, and last, birthday. There was little to celebrate. The so-called “Thousand Year Reich” was in its death throes after only 12. Read more
April 2020
WWII History, Profiles
Fearless, demanding, and inspirational, General George Smith Patton, JR., was generally recognized as the U.S. Army’s outstanding field commander by the end of World War II. Read more
April 2020
WWII History, Ordnance
One of the major aims of the great Allied invasion of German-Occupied France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, was the securing of the port of Cherbourg on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. Read more
April 2020
WWII History, Insight
By 1936, 18-year-old Hildegard Koch had reached a crossroads in her young life as she finished her schooling. Read more
April 2020
WWII History, Top Secret
Confronted with war, some men seem capable of assuming almost any evil. Such were the actions of General Shiro Ishii and the men of his Manchuko Unit 731, which developed means of biological warfare in the 1930s and ’40s. Read more
April 2020
WWII History, Books
As Gene Metcalfe floated down toward the earth in his parachute, the first thing he saw below him was a German soldier walking down a path with girl on his arm. Read more
April 2020
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
Even with all the improvements made in a series over the years, sometimes it’s a breath of fresh air to go back to the earlier roots. Read more
