May 2005
WWII History
Cauldron of Death: the Demyansk Salient and the Eastern Front
by Pat McTaggartOn the vast Eastern Front, the Demyansk salient represented little more than a smudge on the battle map. Read more
May 2005
Volume 4, No. 3
Cover: American soldiers display a captured German flag in front of a destroyed enemy tank in Chambois, France. Germany’s surrender is only months away.
May 2005
WWII History
The Battle of Peleliu: Shocked Beyond Imagination
By Al HemingwayAs he watched the preliminary bombardment from the railing of his ship, Colonel Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller had deep reservations. Read more
May 2005
WWII History
The Siege of Malta in WWII: Holding on to the Island Fortress
By John BrownWhen World War II began in September 1939, just nine months before the Siege of Malta, its three small islands in the central Mediterranean were still considered part of the British Commonwealth. Read more
May 2005
WWII History
V-E Day: Victory at Last for World War II’s Allies
By Flint WhitlockWithin his reinforced concrete bunker, 50 feet below the garden of the New Reichs Chancellery on Berlin’s Wilhelmstrasse, German dictator Adolf Hitler, his soon-to-be bride Eva Braun, and several hundred friends, SS guards, and staff members could feel the concussion and hear the unending drumroll of thousands of Soviet artillery shells reducing the already-battered capital city of the Third Reich to unrecognizable rubble. Read more
May 2005
WWII History, Editorial
Georgy Zhukov and Russia’s ‘Great Patriotic War’
By Michael E. HaskewThe Great Patriotic War, as World War II came to be known in the Soviet Union, provided the stage upon which Marshal Georgy Zhukov achieved lasting fame. Read more
May 2005
WWII History
Russo-Japanese Clash at the Battle of Nomonhan
By Glenn BarnettIn May 1939, Mongolian herdsmen and part-time militia cavalry crossed the Khalkhin Gol, or Halha, River near the village of Nomonhan in Manchurian-claimed territory. Read more
May 2005
WWII History, Dispatches
Cover to Cover
Dear Editors,
Like many of your readers, I get a lot of magazines. Some professional magazines are very boring and I barely look at the captions let alone read the articles. Read more
May 2005
WWII History, Ordnance
The British Bailey Bridge
By Mike McLaughlinI was always fascinated by the mastery of water,” Sir Donald Coleman Bailey reflected, long after the end of World War II. Read more
May 2005
WWII History, Insight
The Mystery of Slapton Sands: Operation Tiger
By Charles WhitingIn the early 1970s, a former British Royal Air Force policeman–turned-hairdresser, Ken Small, visited South Devon on England’s Channel coast. Read more
May 2005
WWII History, Top Secret
The Daring Calcutta Light Horse Raid
By Robert Barr SmithFreighter Ehrenfels’ siren shrieked through the muggy night across the harbor. As the captain pulled down hard on the alarm cord, the alarm howled out over the steaming darkness, screaming that British raiders were in the harbor, alerting Ehrenfels’ crew and calling for help from ashore. Read more
May 2005
WWII History
The 1941-1942 German juggernaut in the Crimea captures the “invincible” Sevastopol fortress.
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Considered the world’s strongest fortress,” writes military and aviation historian C.G. Read more
