Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly, Editorial
WWII in the news—a continuing saga
In last summer’s issue, I posed the rhetorical questions: Is World War II still relevant? Are people still interested in the topic? Read more
WWII Quarterly
Summer 2012
Volume 3, No. 4
COVER: Fallschirmjäger march in the Wehrmacht parade in honor of Hitler’s 50th birthday, April 20, 1939.
Photo: © SZ Photo / The Image Works
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly, Personality
Darrell “Shifty” Powers: Easy Company’s Sharpshooter
By Marcus BrothertonDarrell “Shifty” Powers was a soft-spoken machinist who never aspired to greatness. He was born, grew up, got married, raised his family, worked, retired, and died in Clinchco, a remote mining town in southwest Virginia. Read more
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly, Controversies
The “Big Wing” Controversy and Hugh Dowding’s Fall From Grace
By Jon DiamondIn the summer of 1940, the vaunted Luftwaffe, fresh from its victories in the skies of France and the Low Countries, began its aerial assault in an attempt to either bring Britain to “peace” terms or destroy the Royal Air Force as a prelude to Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of southeastern England. Read more
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly
Flying With the Fifteenth Air Force
By Tom Row with James BilderOvershadowed by the Mighty Eighth in England, the Fifteenth Air Force flew out of Italy and played no less important—and every bit as dangerous—a role in bombing targets in Nazi Germany and elsewhere. Read more
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly
The Lions of Carentan Part I: Paratrooper vs Paratrooper on D-Day
By Volker GriesserBackground: Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6 was organized in February 1943, under the command of Major Egon Liebach. It was part of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division and was stationed in France, where it trained in parachute and glider operations. Read more
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly
Marine Air Power in the Philippines
By Eric HammelAfter the Japanese stopped resisting in the skies over Rabaul and pulled their aircraft out of the Solomons and Bismarcks battle area in mid-February 1944, it began to appear that U.S. Read more
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly
A Photographer in the Ninth Air Force
By Audrey LemickWhen most people think of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II, the first image that usually comes to mind is that of the heavy bombers, the B-17s and B-24s, that ravaged targets in Europe and the B-29s that wreaked havoc on Japanese cities in the Pacific. Read more
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly
The Supply Front: The Allies’ Key to Victory
By Glenn BarnettAfter the war in Europe was won, General Dwight D. Eisenhower had many opportunities to review various campaigns with the leaders of the Soviet Army–– including even Joseph Stalin himself. Read more
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly
4 Unsolved Mysteries of the Jimmy Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
By Susan ZimmermanApril 18, 1942, will forever live in American military glory as the date of the Jimmy Doolittle Raid on Tokyo––a gutsy, never-before-attempted combat mission to fly North American B-25 Mitchell bombers off the deck of an aircraft carrier and attack an enemy capital. Read more
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly
The EUR: Mussolini’s New Rome
By Alan K. LathropVisitors to a certain part of Rome today may not even be aware that they are walking in an area that came about because of an architectural vision of Benito Mussolini, Italy’s infamous fascist dictator. Read more
Summer 2012
WWII Quarterly
The Yorktown Diary of Ed Reynolds
By Pat ReynoldsSuppose you found a magic door that opened onto some of the most crucial battles fought in the Pacific during World War II? Read more
