Volume 5, No. 5
Cover: German soldiers, including one carrying a flamethrower, accompany a camouflaged tank during the advance on Kursk in July 1943. Photo courtesy akg-images / ullstein bild.
September 2006
WWII History
Pauline Hayton was 52 years old before her father, Norman Wickman, talked about his life in the British Army, and what happened in Dunkirk as he saw it. Read more
September 2006
WWII History
The 18-year-old seamen bobbed in the oily waters off the Philippine coast with other survivors of the October 25, 1944, battle. Read more
September 2006
WWII History
With the German Sixth Army destroyed at Stalingrad, the Soviet juggernaut lunged west and southwest across the River Donets. Read more
September 2006
WWII History
In the early morning hours of May 11, 1943, the silhouettes of two subamarines silently rose to the surface in the icy cold waters off the coast of Attu, an island in the Aleutian chain. Read more
September 2006
WWII History
“Frenchy to Blue Jay—I have a possible sound contact,” squawked from USS Guadalcanal’s bridge intercom at 1110 hours. Read more
September 2006
WWII History, Editorial
The evacuation of nearly 350,000 allied officers and soldiers from the embattled beaches at Dunkirk was indeed an event of epic proportions. Read more
September 2006
WWII History, Dispatches
Dear Editor:
I am now into my second subscription year and am really enjoying your magazine. I will be extending my subscription for another two years. Read more
September 2006
WWII History, Profiles
“I jammed the throttle wide open and, attacking the Me-109 from the port quarter, fired one burst of four seconds and three bursts of two seconds each,” Pilot Officer William R. Read more
September 2006
WWII History, Insight
A British battleship and an American cruiser converged secretly in a remote bay on the Newfoundland coast early in August 1941. Read more
September 2006
WWII History, Ordnance
During the first year of American participation in World War II, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (Kittyhawk or Tomahawk to the British) came to symbolize the United States Army Air Corps as it fought a desperate war to hold the Japanese in check. Read more
September 2006
WWII History, Top Secret
In the modern era, the majority of those accused of spying have done so for monetary purposes—the quick acquisition of wealth as opposed to ideological or philosophical reasons. Read more
September 2006
WWII History, Books
As the man in charge of the Third Reich’s logistical apparatus of mass deportation and extermination of two million European Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps, Adolf Eichmann was the acknowledged center of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Read more
September 2006
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
There are a variety of multi-player games that are refighting World War II twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, but none of them are quite like Battleground Europe: World War II Online from Cornered Rat Software and newly distributed by Matrix games for the PC and the Mac. Read more
