Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly, Editorial
World War II as a Campaign Issue?
In the recently concluded midterm elections, who could have guessed that World War II would have been a campaign issue for one of the candidates? Read more
WWII Quarterly
Spring 2011
Volume 2, No. 3
COVER: General George S. Patton Jr., commander of the U.S. Third Army, 1944. Rue des Archives/The Granger Collection, New York.
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly, Personality
Sgt. John Basilone: Marine Hero of Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima
By Fred L. Borch & Robert F. Dorr“Banzai! Banzai!” screamed the Japanese at the top of their lungs as they launched a ferocious night attack against Marines dug in on Guadalcanal. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly, Technology
SCR-300 WW2 Radio Backpack: The “Walkie Talkie” That Shaped the War
By John NieselEarly in 1945, in the Northern Appenine mountains of Italy, T/5 Harvey, a radioman with the 10th Mountain Division, is carrying his WW2 radio backpack, the ever-handy SCR-300, into combat for the first time. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly, Museums
1st Infantry Division Museum
By Steve HawkinsOne of America’s finest military museums, the 1st Division Museum near Chicago, presents the history of America’s oldest division––from its inception in World War I, through World War II, the Cold War, the jungles of Vietnam, and Desert Storm. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly
Patton in Lorraine: Breaking the Moselle Line
By William E. WelshBy mid-September 1944, the U.S. Third Army was poised to strike at the soft underbelly of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich along a fabled corridor in northeastern France used for centuries by armies tramping across Europe. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly
Opening the Venona Files
By Peter KrossOn February 1, 1943, a group called the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service, the forerunner of the modern-day National Security Agency (NSA), began a project to intercept and analyze diplomatic signal traffic sent by an ally of the United States: the Soviet Union. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly
“I Survived the USS Franklin Inferno”
By George F. Black, as told to Howard DunbarOn March 19, 1945, the Essex-class carrier USS Franklin (CV-13), dubbed “Big Ben,” lay 50 miles off Honshu, one of Japan’s Home Islands. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly
Women of the Air Force
By Amy Goodpaster StrebeIn 1941 two events took place on opposite sides of the world that forever impacted the history of women in aviation. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly
Tracings Of Barbarossa
By Kevin M. HymelOperation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, showed the world the extent of Nazi brutality. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly
Bridge House Hotel: Crimes of the Kempeitai in Shanghai
By Eric NiderostBy the 1930s, Shanghai was already a legend in its own time––the most modern, populous, and decadent city in China. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly
From 747 to B-17: An Interview With Airline Pilot Robert Trammell
By William CaverleeDelta Air Lines and former Northwest pilot Robert Trammell, 45, has made numerous 747 flights on Asian routes across the Pacific. Read more
Spring 2011
WWII Quarterly
Marines in the Air: The Story of Joe’s Jokers
By Allyn Vannoy“As a returning flight of Marine SBDs, dive bombers, were setting down on the airstrip, one of the planes lost a bomb which had failed to release during the mission. Read more
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