Volume 14, No. 2
Cover: 82nd Airborne Division battalion commander Lt. Col. Charles W. Kouns gives final instructions to the men in his “stick” before parachuting from their transport plane over Sicily.
Winter 2023
WWII Quarterly, Editorial
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, from October 23-26, 1944, was the largest air and sea battle of World War II. An important part of the battle took place off Samar Island on October 25, 1944. Read more
Winter 2023
WWII Quarterly, Personality
Private Joe Johnson wakes on the floor of the Pasay schoolhouse, a few miles south of downtown Manila, capital of the Philippines. Read more
Winter 2023
WWII Quarterly
Swirls of black smoke billowed high above the steeples and splintered roofs as Lieutenant Ronald Speirs surveyed the stucco exteriors of storefronts and dwellings pocked by the scars of urban battle. Read more
Winter 2023
WWII Quarterly
For a week before November 20, 1943, U.S. Navy and Seventh Air Force planes did their best to destroy the Japanese defenses on the tiny Pacific atoll of Tarawa. Read more
Winter 2023
WWII Quarterly
Even as they were being integrated into the European Allied air campaign, the use and operation of American B-26 Marauders, and other medium bombers, was still being worked out—with sometimes, as at IJmuiden, Holland, disastrous results. Read more
Winter 2023
WWII Quarterly
By the summer of 1943, American forces felt that they had proven that they were as good as anything the enemy could throw at them. Read more
Winter 2023
WWII Quarterly
The surrender did not begin well. As First Lieutenant Virgil Lary stood in the road next to a snow-covered field just south of Malmédy, Belgium with his hands raised, one of the German tankers poked his head out of the hatch and fired twice at him with his pistol. Read more
Winter 2023
WWII Quarterly
Polish Major General Stanislaw Macze, commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division stood tall and watched as General Guy Simonds, II Canadian Corps, delivered very harsh news to the half dozen German generals and admirals of the 1st Parachute Army, General Erich Straub commanding. Read more
