Volume 9, No. 2
Cover: Adolf Hitler congratulates the Fallschirmjäger after a successful assault on Fortress Eben Emael in Belgium. German paratroopers led the assault on Norway and Denmark in 1940, and defended Monte Cassino in 1945. Photo courtesy of ullstein bild.
March 2010
WWII History
The Gustav Line, stretching across Italy at its narrowest part between Gaeta and Ortona, was a formidable system of defenses, some of it in coastal marshes but mainly in mountainous country through which ran fast-flowing rivers. Read more
March 2010
WWII History
On the morning of May 15, 1942, a strange motorcade rolled out of Campo Four, located 170 hot, dusty miles south of the Italian base at Jalo oasis in northeast Libya. Read more
March 2010
WWII History
The Polish Campaign in 1939 demonstrated the awesome effectiveness of aircraft as weapons platforms for close ground support. Read more
March 2010
WWII History
On May 9, 1936, four days after Italian troops entered Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Mussolini appeared on a balcony of Rome’s Palazzo Venezia to proclaim Victor Emmanuel emperor of the newly created Italian East Africa. Read more
March 2010
WWII History
On New Year’S Day 1945, Brig. Gen. Anthony G. McAuliffe, temporary commander of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, visited the XIX Tactical Air Command (TAC) “Raiders” group. Read more
March 2010
WWII History, Editorial
Marek Edelman was one of a very few Jewish patriots who fought the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto and lived to tell the story of the bravery of those who rose up against their oppressors during World War II. Read more
March 2010
WWII History, Dispatches
Dear Sir,
I will shed no tears for Colonel Peiper. His ultimate fate should have come a lot sooner than it did. Read more
March 2010
WWII History, Ordnance
The first published photo of one of the odd—but highly versatile —frontline vehicles of World War II appeared on the cover of the July 1942 edition of German Propaganda Minister Dr. Read more
March 2010
WWII History, Profiles
“They had lost their country but kept their honor,” future British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said of General Wladyslaw Anders and the Polish II Corps, men in the strange position of trying to win the liberation of their homeland by fighting in Italy. Read more
March 2010
WWII History, Insight
Operation Overlord, the cross-Channel attack that hit the Nazi-occupied beaches of Normandy in 1944, was the culmination of a grand strategy adopted early in the war, followed sporadically during the years of conflict, and aimed at defeating Hitler’s Reich by striking directly at Germany by invasion. Read more
March 2010
WWII History, Top Secret
The army brass argued at length; the scheme proposed by behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner was mad, foolhardy, but also ingenious. Read more
March 2010
WWII History, Books
By the late 1930s, no army in the world was as powerful, well organized, or well-equipped as the German Army. Read more
March 2010
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
After only a few days on store shelves, Modern Warfare 2, the latest in Activision’s lucrative line of first-person shooters, was already pushing absurd numbers. Read more
Military History
