Volume 6, No. 5
Cover: General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery commanded the British Eighth Army in North Africa and went head-to-head with Rommel at El Alamein. After fighting with the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy, he was called home to England to command the 21st Army Group and prepare for the invasion of Normandy. Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum.
September 2007
WWII History
At St. Paul’s Cathedral, the rooftop lookout telephoned the cathedral control center at 6 pm to report that air raid sirens were sounding off to the southwest. Read more
September 2007
WWII History
Very few among the throngs of visitors to Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu are aware of an anomaly, but it definitely exists in the case of the USS Utah. Read more
September 2007
WWII History
The Japanese looked unstoppable. Two divisions of the 15th Army had crossed from Thailand into Burma in mid-January 1942, bent on capturing Rangoon before the British could land reinforcements and block the seizing of the Burma Road. Read more
September 2007
WWII History
Devizes in southern England had had a quiet war. It had not suffered any bombing as most English cities had. Read more
September 2007
WWII History
Tobruk, the vital Libyan seaport on the coast of Cyrenaica, fell to General Erwin Rommel and his victorious Afrika Korps in less than 24 hours after an unexpected and devastating air, armor, and infantry attack on June 21, 1942. Read more
September 2007
WWII History
Ignoring a nonaggression pact between Hitler and Stalin, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, an invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. Read more
September 2007
WWII History, Editorial
By the time Erwin Rommel arrived in the Libyan desert in February 1941 he was already a national hero in Germany. Read more
September 2007
WWII History, Dispatches
Dear Editor:
I read the “Debacle at Luban” article in your July 2007 issue with much interest. The study of this unknown campaign gives the reader a clearer insight than he can get from the study of famous battles which are distorted by myth and legend. Read more
September 2007
WWII History, Ordnance
The German crewmen occupied the various stations in their tank as they approached the American roadblock ahead. It was 2100 hours on Christmas Eve, 1944, just outside the town of Manhay, Luxembourg, which was occupied by elements three different U.S. Read more
September 2007
WWII History, Profiles
Throughout the reign of the Nazi Party in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, Adolf Hitler’s inner circle comprised a diverse group of men from many walks of life. Read more
September 2007
WWII History, Insight
It was loud. It was violent. Gunfire ripped into 1st Lt. Grant G. Stout’s Republic P-47D Thunderbolt fighter high over Dortmund, Germany, near midday on March 19, 1945, and the aircraft trembled and shook. Read more
September 2007
WWII History, Top Secret
On June 6, 1944, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops, planes, and ships departed from their bases in England bound for the shores of France in what was to be the greatest invasion of all time. Read more
September 2007
WWII History, Books
It is highly unusual in the publishing world for two books to come out in the same year on the same topic with the same title (and even the same photo on their covers). Read more
September 2007
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
Much more of an arcade feel this issue as we don’t have any hardcore sims on hand. Read more
