Volume 20, No. 5
Cover: American airborne trooper T/4 Joseph Gorenc enters
a C-47 headed to Normandy on the night of June 5-6, 1944.
Photo: National Archives
October 2021
WWII History
Today, Bukit Timah, meaning “Tin Hill” in Malay, is a residential and business neighborhood in the center of the island of Singapore approximately seven and one-half miles northwest of Singapore City. Read more
October 2021
WWII History
Most historical accounts of World War II aviation relate the experiences of commissioned officers, men who obtained their wings through completion of a military pilot training program. Read more
October 2021
WWII History
Unlike many of the paratroopers in the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Lieutenant John J. Dolan knew exactly where he was when he landed on June 6, 1944. Read more
October 2021
WWII History
Howard Linn was a member of the 492nd Bombardment Group—the “Hard Luck” group of the Eighth Air Force. Read more
October 2021
WWII History
By April 1941, just over a year and a half into World War II, Nazi Germany was the master of Europe. Read more
October 2021
WWII History
Itching for sea duty but forced to cool his heels with shore assignments, 40-year-old U.S. Navy Captain Daniel V. Read more
October 2021
WWII History, Editorial
By June 1943, when a U.S. Navy task group under the command of Captain Daniel Gallery captured the Nazi submarine U-505 on the high seas—the first such seizure of the an enemy warship by the American navy since the War of 1812—Allied forces were obviously wresting the initiative in the Battle of the Atlantic from the rampaging Wolfpacks of the Kriegsmarine directed by Admiral Karl Dönitz. Read more
October 2021
WWII History, Profile
By Nathan N. Prefer
He was an unknown junior lieutenant colonel when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, yet by the end of that war he was the youngest major general commanding one of the most famous divisions in the European Theater. Read more
October 2021
WWII History, Top Secret
After the tumultuous liberation of Paris and the German Army’s eastward flight from France, Allied hopes rose high in the late summer and autumn of 1944. Read more
October 2021
WWII History, Insight
The Spanish-American War saw the development of the torpedo as we know it today. It was not the static mine of the Civil War but a propeller driven, waterborne explosive device. Read more
October 2021
WWII History, Books
Lieutenant Robert Samuel Johnson looked around for some friendly planes to fly with to get back to England. Read more
October 2021
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
There are plenty of ground and air combat-based World War II games, so it always catches our attention when a new one arrives that focuses its combat on the open seas. Read more
