WWII History December 2013
First Hell in the Pacific: The Battle for Tulagi
By Arnold BlumbergThe strategic defeats suffered in the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway checked Japan’s advance in the Pacific. Read more
WWII History December 2013
From Pearl Harbor to Bikini: The USS Curtiss in Action
By Glenn BarnettGene Verge was born in Pasadena, California, in 1918. As a young man in 1941 he faced the probability of being drafted. Read more
WWII History December 2013
Blunder or Deception? Stilwell at Myitkyina
by Jon DiamondGeneral Joseph W. “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell and his Sino-American Myitkyina Task Force (MTF), in a coup de main attack, seized the vital Japanese-controlled airfield just west of the town of Myitkyina on the great Irrawaddy River in northern Burma on May 17, 1944. Read more
WWII History December 2013
Daredevil Tankers Turn the Tide at the Bulge
By Patrick J. Chaisson“Peiper must be stopped!”
Lieutenant General Courtney M. Hodges, commanding the U.S. First Army, looked up from his maps and saw chaos everywhere. Read more
WWII History December 2013
George C. Marshall: Architect of Victory
By Michael D. HullPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt was disturbed in the autumn of 1938 by the Munich agreement, at which the rights of Czechoslovakia were signed away, and by reports of mounting air strength in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Read more
WWII History December 2013
WWII Vehicles: The Island-Hopping LVT
By R.J. SeeseWhile making business calls in Tampa, Florida, during the summer of 1980, I spotted a strange looking tracked contraption atop an overgrown pedestal in front of the U.S. Read more
WWII History December 2013
Hitler’s Lebensborn Children: Kidnappings in German-Occupied Poland
By Brent Douglas DyckIn the summer of 1943, Malgorzata Twardecki, a single mother living in Nazi-occupied Poland, received an ominous order to bring her five-year-old son to the local town council office by 6 the following morning. Read more
WWII History December 2013
The Japanese Blitz on Bataan
By Donald YoungFollowing their impressive string of victories in Malaya, Hong Kong, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines, it appeared that the Japanese were invincible in the early days of World War II. Read more
WWII History December 2013
Devastating Firestorm: A Gunner in the Superfortress Raid on Tokyo
By Robert F. Dorr & Douglas L. CarterWhen the Boeing B-29 Superfortress crews poured out of the briefing at North Field, Tinian, on the afternoon of March 9, 1945, they were disgruntled. Read more
