Volume 9, No. 5
Cover: A Canadian soldier prepares to lob a hand grenade into a building, December 31, 1943. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
August 2010
WWII History
The 44th Infantry Division, part of the U.S. Seventh Army’s XV Corps, was pushing elements of the battered German 25th Panzergrenadier Division back toward the German frontier in the Vosges Mountains during early December 1944. Read more
August 2010
WWII History
The first Allied victory of World War I occurred when Australian volunteers occupied the German colony of northeastern New Guinea and the adjoining Admiralty Islands. Read more
August 2010
WWII History
By the end of April 1945, two of the most feared divisions of the Waffen-SS, the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler and the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, had both been reduced in strength to little more than reinforced regiments. Read more
August 2010
WWII History
“They’re machine gunning! They’re strafing the hospital! The beasts! The slimy beasts!”
“Pearl Harbor! Most of us didn’t know what it was, let alone where it was.” Read more
August 2010
WWII History
The German paratroopers marched the captured Canadian officer through the dark forest to the damp underground bunker that served as their platoon headquarters. Read more
August 2010
WWII History, Editorial
On September 11, 1941, exactly 60 years before a terrorist attack damaged the building and changed forever the American way of life, ground was broken for the Pentagon, a five-sided office building which today houses the U.S. Read more
August 2010
WWII History, Dispatches
Dear Editor:
I want offer a few words of thanks to Sam McGowan for his story and contribution to WWII History. Read more
August 2010
WWII History, Ordnance
Imperial Japan’s first hesitant steps toward adoption of armored fighting vehicles occurred in 1925 with the creation of two company-strength tank units. Read more
August 2010
WWII History, Profiles
Despite being ridiculed as a vain, pompous, and glory-seeking imbecile in a spate of biographies, diaries, letters, trial transcripts, and memoirs by leaders, field marshals, generals, and diplomats from both the Allies and his own Axis partners during and after the war, Joachim von Ribbentrop nevertheless was one of the premier foreign affairs practitioners of the Nazi epoch. Read more
August 2010
WWII History, Top Secret
In the early morning of Monday, November 9, 1942, the german U-boat U-518 surfaced off the bleak Quebec coast. Read more
August 2010
WWII History, Insight
In the fall of 1943, I found myself a “limited service” duty officer assigned to the Operations Division, War Department General Staff in Washington, D.C. Read more
August 2010
WWII History, Books
No one looks like a hero. But when certain men are placed in impossible situations, they rise to the occasion and perform spectacular deeds that defy imagination. Read more
August 2010
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
Heavy is the burden on the first horse out of the gate. There’s the pressure of setting the pace; establishing the flow for those approaching from the rear. Read more
