Volume 6, No. 1
COVER: A U.S. Marine looks over the remains of a Japanese soldier killed during brutal fighting on Guadalcanal.
Photo: National Archives
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly, Editorial
This year I feel deeply honored to have been chosen by the Smithsonian Institution to lead three 70th anniversary D-Day trips to England and France (one took place in May; the other two are scheduled to take place in September and October). Read more
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly, Technology
When it came to advanced military technology in World War II, arguably no one was better at it than Nazi Germany, whose scientists Adolf Hitler keep busy trying to invent the ultimate “super weapon” capable of defeating his enemies. Read more
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly, Weapons
The Nazi regime in Germany has become synonymous with inhuman cruelty. Hitler incarcerated millions in his concentration camps and inflicted on his victims the harshest forms of torture and deprivation imaginable. Read more
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly
By mid-August 1944, roughly one month before the now-famous Operation Market Garden, the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division had been fighting off and on for over a year. Read more
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly
She was a beautiful ship, long and sleek and very fast. She was christened Scharnhorst,named for Prussian General Gerhard Scharnhorst,one of the revered founders of the Prussian Army. Read more
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly
On June 6, 1945, two Stars & Stripes newspaper reporters traveled to Normandy with a mission: to photograph the effects of the year-old D-Day landings on the beaches, towns, and fields. Read more
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly
World War II affected nearly every area of the world. It was the deadliest conflict in all of human history. Read more
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly
Backstory: My father, Karl Fuchs, was a German soldier in World War II who fought and died on the Eastern Front. Read more
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly
In April 1942, a group of young Marines, having recently graduated from Officers Candidate School, arrived at New River, North Carolina, a sprawling tent city that stretched over a vast area and would eventually become known as Camp Lejeune. Read more
Fall 2014
WWII Quarterly
On a cold March evening in the Goldenrod Café in West Point, Nebraska, Mary Timmermann, a waitress there, picked up the telephone receiver when her boss told her it was Omaha calling long distance for her. Read more
