Volume 3, No. 5
Cover: German unit leaders near Leningrad watch for enemy movement in a photo originally published in Signal magazine. Photo courtesy of The Bridgeman Art Library.
September 2004
WWII History
“In the years to come everyone will remember Arnhem, but no one will remember that two American divisions fought their hearts out in the Dutch canal country,” wrote U.S. Read more
September 2004
WWII History
The two regiments from the county of Kent, down in southeastern England, are of both ancient and honorable lineage. Read more
September 2004
WWII History
In early 1942, the U.S. Eighth Air Force arrived in England firmly entrenched in the belief that continuous and accurate daylight precision bombing was the only way to decisively crush German industrial capacity. Read more
September 2004
WWII History
Two weeks after Pearl Harbor, coast watcher Cornelius Page, a plantation manager on Tabar Island 20 miles north of New Ireland in the South Pacific, reported by teleradio that Japanese planes were making reconnaissance flights over New Ireland and New Britain. Read more
September 2004
WWII History
Early in December 1941, Operation Typhoon, the German drive on Moscow, withered in the face of tenacious Soviet resistance and one of the worst Russian winters in living memory. Read more
September 2004
WWII History, Editorial
While the American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions were engaged in fighting near the Dutch towns of Eindhoven and Nijmegen, respectively, and the British XXX Corps struggled up the 100 miles of narrow road from the Belgian frontier toward Arnhem, Operation Market Garden very likely was already lost. Read more
September 2004
WWII History, Dispatches
Dear Editor:
I enjoyed Blaine Taylor’s “Top Secret” column in the May 2004 issue. However, for future reference, you may want to review one minor technical error. Read more
September 2004
WWII History, Insight
It was shortly before seven o’clock on the rain-drenched morning of April 27, 1945, the day before the death of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Read more
September 2004
WWII History, Ordnance
With the conflict in Iraq, combat photography is once again prevalent in the media, and it would be impossible to miss images of U.S. Read more
September 2004
WWII History, Top Secret
As an effective naval weapon, submarines were in their infancy when World War I began in August 1914. Read more
September 2004
WWII History, Profiles
Outside City Hall in Worcester, Mass., stands a soldier who has been on guard duty since 1947. Read more
September 2004
WWII History, Books
The subtitle for this book, How Ordinary Soldiers Defeated Hitler, pretty well sums up the authors’ objectives in describing the Normandy Campaign through the eyes of the men who did the actual fighting. Read more
