Volume 2, No. 2
Cover: With a Stuart light tank in the background, an Australian soldier advances during the final assault on the Japanese beachhead at Buna, New Guinea.
March 2003
WWII History
Still stunned by the sneak Japanese onslaught on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, American families tried to summon up their Christmas spirit in December 1941. Read more
March 2003
WWII History
Ask anyone who was there and they will tell you that Papua New Guinea, especially along the northern coast, was a tropical hell. Read more
March 2003
WWII History
On July 4, 1942, the men of newly promoted Field Marshal Erich von Manstein’s Eleventh Army celebrated the capture of the last Soviet bastion in the Crimea. Read more
March 2003
WWII History
On a moonless night in January 1944, in the Haute Savoie region of southeast France, the drone from the engine of a RAF bomber could be heard in the distance. Read more
March 2003
WWII History
For the Western Allies, the war in Europe ended with more of a whimper than a bang. Read more
March 2003
WWII History
Although the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the event that served to galvanize America to fight World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military advisers had pervasively decided that defeating the Japanese would be secondary to destroying the Nazi war machine in Europe. Read more
March 2003
WWII History, Editorial
The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague, ended the notorious career of one of the most ruthless and anti-Semitic Nazis. Read more
March 2003
WWII History, Dispatches
Dear Editor:
I awaited the “Dispatches” to question why C.R. Smith’s name was not acknowledged in “Anything, Anywhere, Anytime” (July 2002) about the Air Transport Command (ATC), written by Sam McGowan. Read more
March 2003
WWII History, Profiles
Short, wiry, and with baleful blue eyes and an Old Testament beard, Maj. Gen. Orde Charles Wingate was unorthodox in thought and action. Read more
March 2003
WWII History, Top Secret
The morning sun caressed the hills of the Czech capital of Prague, coaxing a slight haze from the ancient city. Read more
March 2003
WWII History, Ordnance
When one thinks of carrier warfare in World War II, the Japanese and U.S. navies usually come to mind. Read more
March 2003
WWII History, Books
When German forces rumbled across the Polish frontier in the early hours of Friday, September 1, 1939, igniting World War II, it was the speed and mobility of the armored divisions—the Panzerwaffe—that stunned the world. Read more
March 2003
WWII History, Insight
American perceptions of Japan’s war with China (1937-1945) have been formed by the reports on the Nanking Massacre and similar examples of Japanese brutality. Read more
