Volume 6, No. 4
Cover: Battalion commander Alexei Yeremenko, who was killed in battle in 1942. urges his fellow soldiers on during fighting near Voroshilovgrad, Soviet Ukraine. Photograph by Max Alpert. Courtesy of ullstein-bild/The Granger Collection, New York. See page 66 for an article on the Red Army’s attempt to relieve Leningrad.
July 2007
WWII History
By February 1945, the green Allied formations that landed on D-Day had become hard professional armies. Army, corps, and division commands had been shaken down and were operating efficiently. Read more
July 2007
WWII History
Three German soldiers crept through the snow. They had infiltrated the American front line during a counterattack. Major William F. Read more
July 2007
WWII History
In truth, it really was not a combat operation. For every airplane lost to enemy action, a hundred were destroyed in accidents. Read more
July 2007
WWII History
On February 23, 1942, Red Army Day, the People’s Commissar of Defense, Josef Stalin, issued Order No. 55. Read more
July 2007
WWII History
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was America’s first strategic intelligence organization. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized its establishment on June 13, 1942, six months after World War II began, to collect and analyze strategic intelligence and to conduct special services, including subversion, sabotage, and psychological warfare. Read more
July 2007
WWII History, Editorial
Sixty-five years ago, the fortunes of war in the Pacific changed irreversibly for the Japanese. Since 1931, Japan’s army had asserted control over territory on the continent of Asia, brushing aside Chinese resistance, condemnation and political pressure from other nations, and most recently, the Allied military. Read more
July 2007
WWII History, Dispatches
Dear Editor:
As the author of Patton’s Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, I read with great interest Major General Michael Reynolds’s article (March 2007 issue) regarding the 1st SS Panzer Division’s attack against the east side of the Bastogne relief corridor. Read more
July 2007
WWII History, Ordnance
Although it suffered, like all combatants, from the costly stalemate and horrendous casualties of trench warfare during World War I, Italy never used tanks during that conflict. Read more
July 2007
WWII History, Top Secret
By June 1940, during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s seventh year in office, Europe was ablaze. In that month, France fell to the Nazi blitzkrieg that threatened to overtake the entire continent. Read more
July 2007
WWII History, Profiles
On May 31, 1932, Franz von Papen achieved the pinnacle of a long career serving his country when, in a surprising move, the aging President Paul von Hindenburg named him Chancellor of Germany. Read more
July 2007
WWII History, Insight
It will not come as a surprise to American readers that when the Japanese emperor delivered his surrender message on August 15, 1945, Allied forces led by the United States had thoroughly defeated Japan’s naval and air power in the Pacific. Read more
July 2007
WWII History, Books
By Mason B. Webb
Just when one thinks that there could not be another “untold” story about World War II, along comes a writer like Dan Kurzman with a new book about a previously untold story: the Nazis’ plan to kidnap Pope Pius XII. Read more
July 2007
WWII History, Games
It is funny how genres come and go. A book becomes a best seller and suddenly there are a plethora of submarine games (and movies). Read more
