WWII History March 2004

The Fall of Malaya: Japanese Blitzkrieg on Singapore

By David H. Lippman

The moon like a tray was sinking in the western sea and the deep red sun showed its face to the east. Read more

WWII History March 2004

Top Secret Missions: Liberating General George S. Patton’s Son-In-Law

By Jonathan F. Keiler

In the wan North African light on February 14, 1943, Lt. Col. John Waters watched columns of dust rise from the east. Read more

WWII History March 2004

Soviet Soldiers by Sea: The Soviet Naval Infantry

By Victor Kamenir

The year 1943 began badly for the German Army on the Eastern Front. After a great struggle at Stalingrad, German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered himself and his Sixth Army on January 31. Read more

WWII History March 2004

General Andrei Vlasov & Hitler’s Third Reich

By Wil Deac

Andrei Andreievich Vlasov, one of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s favorite generals, played a key role in saving Moscow from Adolf Hitler’s armies during the winter of 1941-1942. Read more

WWII History March 2004

All Alone: The HMS Glowworm

By Robert Barr Smith

The great waves were huge and black, greedy tentacles of the North Sea clawing and snatching at the battered ships struggling in the icy dark. Read more

WWII History March 2004

The Wehrmacht in France: Decisions in a Time of Debacle

By Brooke C. Stoddard

May 10, 1940, marked the beginning of the war in western Europe. Nazi-controlled Germany invaded Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. Read more

WWII History March 2004

Battle of the Bismarck Sea: A 15-Minute War in the South Pacific

By Sam McGowan

Most military historians consider the Battle of Midway to be the turning point of World War II in the Pacific. Read more

WWII History March 2004

The Red Army’s T-34 Tank: The Eastern Front and Beyond

By Blaine Taylor

In 1942, careworn Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler lamented to his military intimates at his Wolf’s Lair headquarters near Rastenburg in East Prussia, “If I had known that there were so many of them, I would have had second thoughts about invading!” Read more

WWII History March 2004

P-38 Lightning Restored

By Jim Opalka

Only a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor a 24-four-year-old pilot, Lieutenant Brad McManus, scanned the sky as he was taught to do as an air cadet. Read more