February 2019
WWII History
World War II Soldier’s First Combat: “You Learn Fast”
By Kevin M. HymelPrivate Armand Lorenzi and his fellow soldiers were advancing through a snowy German forest when enemy machine guns opened fire. Read more
February 2019
Volume 18, No. 2
Cover: German soldiers believed to be members of the notorious Waffen SS Dirlewanger Brigade engage Polish resistance fighters during the Warsaw Uprising.
Photo: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R97906; Photo: Schremmer
February 2019
WWII History
Heroic Warsaw Airlift
By Patrick J. ChaissonWarsaw was burning. Captain Jack Van Eyssen first saw it as a dull glow on the night horizon, 35 miles distant. Read more
February 2019
WWII History
The Liberation of Nordhausen Concentration Camp
By Steve OssadAfter leading his U.S. 3rd Armored “Spearhead” Division on the longest, one-day, enemy-opposed mechanized advance in American history, Maj. Read more
February 2019
WWII History
Battle of the Java Sea: Desperate Delaying Action
By David LippmanThe ships left just before sunset on February 26, 1942, passing out of a harbor jammed with wreckage, battered docks, fires, the stench of burning oil, and Dutch women, children, and old men—most of them relatives of the crews heading out—waving their men goodbye and good luck. Read more
February 2019
WWII History
Battle of Berlin Prelude: Küstrin, and Death on the Oder
By Pat McTaggart“We felt that we were already dead men,” wrote former Captain Albrecht Wüstenhagen in a May 1988 letter to the author of his time in the fortress garrison of Küstrin. Read more
February 2019
WWII History, Editorial
Rangers ravaged at Cisterna 75 years ago.
To this day, controversy continues to swirl around Operation Shingle and its agonizing aftermath. The Allied landings at Anzio, intended to outflank the German Gustav Line in Italy, occurred in January 1944. Read more
February 2019
WWII History, Ordnance
Junkers Ju-87 Stuka: What Made the Luftwaffe Vulture so Fearsome
By Michael D. HullOne of the deadliest and most effective airplanes of the Axis powers, the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka, owed its origin to a fearless World War I ace and, ironically, to innovative American aviation visionaries in the peaceful early 1930s. Read more
February 2019
WWII History, Profiles
George S. Patton Jr.’s Upbringing: The Making of the Legend
By Duane SchultzGeorge Patton knew exactly what he wanted to be from childhood on. “When I was a little boy at home, I used to wear a wooden sword and say to myself, ‘George S. Read more
February 2019
WWII History, Insight
WAC Corporal Lena Derriecott and the 6888th Central Postal Battalion
By Kevin M. HymelThe German V-1 flying rocket, packed with 1,870 pounds of explosives, buzzed over Birmingham, England, until its pulsing engine cut out. Read more
February 2019
WWII History, Top Secret
The Brandenburgers: Seeing Without Being Seen
By John W. Osborn, Jr.It was in the early hours of the German invasion of Holland, May 10, 1940, and a Wehrmacht doctor was tending to a soldier wounded during the capture of the key Gennep border bridge. Read more
February 2019
WWII History, Books
At the Costly Anzio Beachhead
By Christopher MiskimonThe morning of February 16, 1944, dawned foggy over the Via Anziate near Anzio, Italy. The 45th Infantry Division’s 2nd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment had advanced overnight to take positions on the west side of the roadway, assuming its place on the front lines. Read more
February 2019
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
EA Leaps from one world war to the next with the latest entry in the long-running Battlefield series.
By Joseph LusterWe’re at somewhat of an impasse in the world of shooters and the disparity between single-player and multiplayer offerings. Read more
