Volume 8, No. 3
COVER: A U.S. Marine boards a Coast Guard assault transport after two days and nights of combat on the beach at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
Photo: National Archives
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly, Editorial
Over the past few months, several stories with a World War II connection have slipped into the news. One of the most compelling was about a German TV documentary called A German Life. Read more
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly, Home Front
They said it couldn’t be done. Doubters chided Henry Ford for declaring that his Willow Run Bomber Plant could turn out a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber every hour. Read more
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly
The Battle of the Bulge is famously known as the largest battle fought by the U.S. Army in World War II. Read more
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly
“All hands have behaved splendidly and held up in a manner in which the Marine Corps may well tell.” Read more
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly
British General Sir Bernard Montgomery was given command of two Allied armies for the invasion of Normandy: Lt. Read more
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly
“But here are men who fought in gallant actions, as gallant AS ever hero’s fought,” wrote the poet Lord Byron (1788-1824). Read more
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly
More than seventy years after the fact, the use of atomic bombs by the United States in the final days of World War II remains one of the most controversial events of the 20th century. Read more
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly
Almost every American veteran has fond memories of a Track-Side Free Canteen, or a USO center at some train station or airport situated at locations around the world, or a “USO Camp Show” that provided entertainment close to the front lines, during every conflict since World War II. Read more
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly
On August 2, 1945, two weeks prior to Japan’s surrender, the highest ranking Japanese officer captured during the war in the Pacific was taken on the island of Morotai, Dutch New Guinea. Read more
Spring 2017
WWII Quarterly
March 24, 1945. The green light flashed from the C-47 tug plane, prompting the glider pilot being pulled behind it to release his tow rope over Landing Zone N, just east of the Rhine River. Read more
