Volume 8, No. 2
COVER: A U.S. infantryman takes aim from a WWI style trench on the German border in October 1944, south of Aachen, Germany.
Photo: National Archives
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly, Editorial
For the most part, World War II left the U.S. and Canadian homelands physically untouched. There were a few incidents of sabotage and a few small-scale attacks, such as a Japanese submarine’s shelling of an oil refinery in southern California and balloon bombs launched from Japan that floated over the Pacific and set fires in the western United States and Canada. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly, Home Front
When Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay, the hard-driving commander of the Twentieth U.S. Air Force based in Guam, decided to change tactics in early 1945 to boost the effectiveness of the B-29 Superfortress, it was the Bell Aircraft plant in Marietta, Georgia, that ultimately provided him with the stripped-down bombers that played such a key role in ending the war in the Pacific. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly, Museums
In the heart of Pennsylvania, not far from the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg, stands the U.S. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly
Before World War II, the Belgian port city of Antwerp was one of the world’s great ports, ranking with those of Hamburg, Rotterdam, and New York. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly
They knew they were coming. They had been waiting for days, expecting at any minute to be rushed to battle stations, but for days nothing much had happened. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly
At the beginning of the battle for Imphal and Kohima, a Japanese Order of the Day instructed the troops: “You will fight to the death. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly
When we remember the 13,000 paratroopers and glider infantrymen who contributed so significantly to the hard-won success of June 6, 1944, we tend to remember the stories that leave us with something to admire. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly
As the last days of 1943 slipped away, World War II in Italy ground to a miserable stalemate. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly
War has been described as long periods of extreme boredom punctuated by brief moments of extreme terror. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly
“DON’T WORRY, GUYS––the Airborne is here!” shouted Private Howard Buford to the worn-out GIs he and his fellow paratroopers passed on the snowy road through Bastogne in the early hours of December 19, 1944. Read more
Winter 2017
WWII Quarterly
By the time of the waning of the summer of 1944 in western Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s victorious Allied armies had forged a battle line from the Dutch province of Maastricht in the north to Belfort near the Swiss border in the south. Read more
