Pacific Theater WWII
WWII Quarterly

Fall 2019

Volume 11, No. 1

COVER: U.S. Third Army troops hunker down in their landing craft as they come under enemy fire while crossing the Rhine River, March 22, 1944.
Photo: National Archives

Fall 2019

WWII Quarterly, Fighting Units

Roza Shanina and the Soviet Women Snipers of WWII

By Phil Zimmer

Roza Shanina was cute as a kitten, yet as dangerous as a Siberian tiger. The 20-year-old drew many an eye behind Soviet lines in World War II with her striking blue eyes, fair skin, and strawberry blonde hair, but she earned her reputation out front in no-man’s-land. Read more

Roosevelt Junior

Fall 2019

WWII Quarterly

Teddy Roosevelt Junior: Steadying the Troops at Utah Beach

By Mason B. Webb

Teddy Roosevelt Junior had enjoyed a distinguished career even before D-Day. He had commanded a battalion in France during the Great War, served as secretary of the Navy from 1921 to 1924, been the governor of Puerto Rico from 1929 to 1932, and been governor-general of the Philippines for a year in the early 1930s. Read more

German soldiers in winter camouflage defend their lines against oncoming Russians.

Fall 2019

WWII Quarterly

Furious Fight in a Frozen Hell

By Pat McTaggart

It was the third winter in Russia for the men of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein’s Army Group South, and things were going from bad to worse. Read more

Fall 2019

WWII Quarterly

Hitler’s Masters of Murder

By Mark Simner

“I must tell you something…. I took part in a mass killing the day before yesterday.

[When we shot the Jews brought by] the first truck, my hand trembled somewhat during the shooting, but one gets used to it. Read more