Volume 15, No. 4
Cover: A Canadian M4 Sherman tank advances during the assult on Walcheren Island and the Scheldt Estuary in September 1944. Photo: National Archive
June 2016
WWII History
I was raised on a farm between Hickory and Conover, North Carolina, the oldest of nine children, and this is a brief accounting of my military, combat, and prisoner of war experience in World War II. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
There was tight security and feverish activity on the dock at the Hunters Point Navy Shipyard in San Francisco Bay around 3 am on Monday, July 16, 1945. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
From Leningrad to Murmansk, columns of Soviet Red Army troops stormed down roads and trails into Finland’s dense forests, lakes, and swamps, seeking to cut Finland in half. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
On September 4, 1944, tanks of the British 11th Armored Division lumbered into the outskirts of Antwerp, Belgium. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
Lucian Truscott needed a cigarette. The 47-year-old brigadier general was having the worst night of his life. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Editorial
When an Israeli tribunal found Adolf Eichmann, the right hand of Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich, guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes against Poles, Gypsies, and Slovenes, and membership in the Nazi Gestapo, SS, and SD—all three deemed criminal organizations by the Free World—he remained obstinate. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Ordnance
The day’s flight was to be a fairly typical “rhubarb,” or a fast freelance strike, for the two pilots in their Bristol Beaufighters. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Profiles
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme Allied commander in Europe during World War II, considered General Alfonse Juin to be the best French combat general of the conflict. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Top Secret
It was at the grand banquet given in his honor that General William “Wild Bill” Donovan told his host, General Dai Li, that the OSS intended to work on its own in China and that he wanted no interference from the Chinese. Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Insight
Former German President Horst Koehler once said that Auschwitz, the largest Nazi extermination camp, was home to the “worst crime in human history.” Read more
June 2016
WWII History, Books
Griefswald, a small German city on the Baltic Coast, lay directly in the path of Soviet tanks on April 30, 1945. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
Crowd-funded video game efforts are more and more abundant these days, and developer Driven Arts has a big one on their plate. Read more
June 2016
WWII History
While we do our best to mix it up, most of what we; cover in these pages falls along similar folds. Read more
