Volume 11, No. 3
COVER: Marine PFC Thomas Ellis Underwood photographed during the fighting on Saipan. Underwood was later killed on Iwo Jima.
Photo: Bettman/Corbis
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly, Editorial
Seventy-five years ago, the European phase of the global cataclysm known as World War II came to an end. The First World War—the “Great War,” the “War to End All Wars”—had ended not with a bang but with a whimper. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly, Ordnance
From the time of the Wright brothers, the vast majority of aircraft were biplanes with two wings stacked one above the other. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly, Investigation
“Dead Man’s Corner,”at a road junction south of Saint-Côme-du-Mont, has become one of Normandy’s most famous landmarks. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly, Museums
Anyone traveling to Washington, DC, should take the time to head west to Chantilly, Virginia (near Dulles International Airport), and visit the Steven F. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly
A German SS officer, holding a white flag of truce, walked through the American lines and up to a tall lieutenant from Texas. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly
In Eisenhower’s Lieutenants, eminent historian Stanley Weintraub wrote that communications in the 1800s between America’s scattered frontier garrisons were slow, which encouraged a tradition of individual initiative in the American army. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly
It was the largest warship ever built up to that time. It carried larger guns than any warship before it. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly
By Colonel Dick Camp (USMC, Ret.)
In the summer of 1944, the 5th Amphibious Corps under Marine Lt. Gen. Holland M. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly
By Mason B. Webb
For the major combatants, World War II marked an unprecedented effort to manufacture a wide variety of military hardware: ships, vehicles, aircraft, guns, and much more—all within a short amount of time. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly
On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States declared war on the Empire of Japan, and the following day President Franklin D. Read more
Spring 2020
WWII Quarterly
On Tuesday, May 8, 1945, a strange sound was heard across all of Europe—the sound of silence. It was as if someone had suddenly flipped the war switch to “Off.” Read more
