Volume 25, No. 4
Cover: 1st Division GIs fire on Germans as mortars disrupt the work of American engineers in Germany.
Winter 2027
WWII History, Editorial
By 1945, refinements in technology and military doctrine had resulted in the acknowledgment that control of the air was critical to successful operations on land or sea. Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History, Profile
The target of the B-25 Mitchell bombers was the Castelvetrano airfield on Sicily. It was July 2, 1943; the amphibious invasion of the island by the Anglo-American 15th Army Group was seven days away. Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History, Insight
Women’s contributions on the World War II home front are commonly portrayed in two ways: planting victory gardens, knitting blankets and rolling bandages—or working in a factory welding as “Rosie the Riveter.” Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History, Ordnance
Wearing his flight suit, Luftwaffe Aviator and Bachem test pilot Lothar Sieber approached Natter (“Viper”) M23, standing on its launcher at the Heuberg Training Area in southwest Germany on March 1, 1945. Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History
Countdown Battle Of The Bulge: The 40 Days of World War II That Crushed Hitler’s Last Hope (Chris Wallace and Mitch Weiss, Dutton, New York, NY, 384 pp. Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
Publisher Kalypso Media and developer Kite Games unleashed Sudden Strike 5 earlier this year, but there’s no time to take a breather from all the real-time tactical warfare. Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History, Simulation Gaming
First launched for PC in March 2026, the multiplayer action game Over The Top: WWI has thousands of reviews on Steam for what currently sits at a “Very Positive” distinction. Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History
On September 11, 1944, the U.S. First Army began its attack into Germany at the Belgium/Luxembourg border, its vaunted VII Corps in the lead. Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History
The Japanese order read, “The offensive will start in Blitzkrieg style early in March … 31st Division will attack and occupy Kohima with its main force to hinder the reinforcement of the British-Indian Army.” Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History
American infantrymen in jeeps and halftracks raced for a bridge over the Inn River. If they captured it intact, they could cross from Germany into Austria and capture the town of Braunau, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History
Marguerite Higgins of the New York Herald Tribune and Stars and Stripes reporter Peter Furst drove into one of the Nazis’ most infamous concentration camps with the U.S. Read more
Winter 2027
WWII History
On June 2, 2019, just days ahead of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the June 6, 1944, Allied landings on the northern coast of France, the Washington Post published an article written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Scott Higham, which asked these questions: Was the attack on the German coastal battery atop Pointe du Hoc—“one of D-Day’s most famous, heroic assaults”—necessary? Read more
