Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly, Editorial
A Moment to Celebrate
As I write this editorial, the news is just coming through about the demise of the world’s arch-terrorist, Osama bin Laden. Read more
WWII Quarterly
Fall 2011
Volume 3, No. 1
COVER: A Canadian rifleman fires though an opening in the wall of a German fort in Normandy shortly after D-Day. Photo: National Archives
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly, Personality
Albert Speer: Chief Architect of the Third Reich
By Blaine TaylorOn October 6, 1943, Dr. Albert Speer, Reich minister of armaments and war production for the Third Reich, gave a 50-minute address to the assembled top officials of Nazi Germany at Posen Castle in occupied Poland’s Reich Gau (Region) of Wartheland on the critical state of World War II at that point. Read more
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly, Museum
The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center
By Borden BlackThe American Infantry’s illustrious history, which is older than that of the country, comes alive in an impressive, $100,000,000, 190,000-square-foot museum located just outside Fort Benning, Georgia. Read more
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly
French Aces on the Eastern Front: The Normandie-Niemen Squadron
By Andre Bernole and Glenn BarnettThe world was understandably shocked when France capitulated to Nazi Germany in June 1940, but not all Frenchmen accepted their country’s humiliation. Read more
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly
Target: Sainte-Mere-Eglise
By Flint WhitlockThe night of June 5/6, 1944, was pretty much like every other night since the Germans had occupied Normandy and the Cotentin Peninsula in the summer of 1940: dark, quiet, chilly, and mostly boring. Read more
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly
D-Day+1: Canadians at the Battle of Buron and Authie
By Herb KugelOn June 7, 1944, D+1, two volunteer Canadian 3rd Division, 9th Infantry Brigade regiments, the North Nova Scotia Highlanders (the North Novas) and the 27th Canadian Armoured Regiment (the Sherbrooke Fusiliers)—together with volunteer units from the Camerons of Ottawa and Forward Observers from the 14th Field Regiment—fought an important but now generally forgotten battle in Normandy. Read more
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly
The Japanese Army’s “Rape of Nanking”
By Walter Zapotoczny Jr.On August 15, 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army bombed Nanking, the capital of China. These raids were unrelenting until December 13, when Japanese troops entered the conquered city. Read more
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly
The Power of Cloth
By G. Paul GarsonThe evolution of the Nazi-era military wardrobe followed from a long history of European uniforms in general and Imperial German uniforms in particular. Read more
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly
Blood In The Soil
By Glenn BarnettIn 1939 the one thing that Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin could agree on was the partition of Poland. Read more
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly
Healing War’s Legacy on the Solomon Islands
By Eileen Natuzzi, M.D.The downwind approach of my Boeing 737 into Honiara International Airport goes over Iron Bottom Sound, with Savo Island off in the distance. Read more
Fall 2011
WWII Quarterly
The Saar Offensive: Patton Breaks Through the Western Wall
By William E. WelshThe portion of the Siegfried Line guarding the Saar industrial region of Germany proved a sinister gateway into western Germany for Lt. Read more
