Volume 12, No. 7
Cover: B-29 Superfortress bombers from the 20th Bomber Command drop their ordnance over Japanese occupied territory in Burma.
Photo: Library of Congress.
December 2013
WWII History
When the Boeing B-29 Superfortress crews poured out of the briefing at North Field, Tinian, on the afternoon of March 9, 1945, they were disgruntled. Read more
December 2013
WWII History
“Peiper must be stopped!”
Lieutenant General Courtney M. Hodges, commanding the U.S. First Army, looked up from his maps and saw chaos everywhere. Read more
December 2013
WWII History
Following their impressive string of victories in Malaya, Hong Kong, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines, it appeared that the Japanese were invincible in the early days of World War II. Read more
December 2013
WWII History
Gene Verge was born in Pasadena, California, in 1918. As a young man in 1941 he faced the probability of being drafted. Read more
December 2013
WWII History
The strategic defeats suffered in the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway checked Japan’s advance in the Pacific. Read more
December 2013
WWII History, Editorial
On November 20, 1943, fully 70 years ago, American Marines hit the beaches on the islet of Betio, the principal spit of land that makes up Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Read more
December 2013
WWII History, Ordnance
While making business calls in Tampa, Florida, during the summer of 1980, I spotted a strange looking tracked contraption atop an overgrown pedestal in front of the U.S. Read more
December 2013
WWII History, Profiles
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was disturbed in the autumn of 1938 by the Munich agreement, at which the rights of Czechoslovakia were signed away, and by reports of mounting air strength in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Read more
December 2013
WWII History, Insight
In the summer of 1943, Malgorzata Twardecki, a single mother living in Nazi-occupied Poland, received an ominous order to bring her five-year-old son to the local town council office by 6 the following morning. Read more
December 2013
WWII History, Top Secret
General Joseph W. “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell and his Sino-American Myitkyina Task Force (MTF), in a coup de main attack, seized the vital Japanese-controlled airfield just west of the town of Myitkyina on the great Irrawaddy River in northern Burma on May 17, 1944. Read more
December 2013
WWII History, Books
While most of the focus on World War II’s beginning centers on Europe and Nazi Germany’s rise, there is also a distinct body of writers and researchers who have turned their gaze eastward toward Asia in the 1930s. Read more
December 2013
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
World of Warplanes may currently have everyone feeling pretty satisfied with online air combat, but a challenger recently entered the fray with the kick-off of the War Thunder open beta. Read more
December 2013
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
We still have a while to wait for City Interactive’s release of Enemy Front, but the sandbox-style World War II shooter continues to impress. Read more
