WWII History November 2004
The Hidden Freedom Trail
by Adam LynchA few moments after his stricken Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber tore apart, co-pilot Ralph Patton hurriedly put his bail-out plan into action. Read more
WWII History November 2004
The Siege of Tobruk: WWII’s Debacle in the Desert
by Michael D. HullSidi Barrani, Bardia, Sollum, Sidi Rezegh, Mersa Matruh, Bir Hacheim, El Agheila, Beda Fomm, Sidi Omar, Benghazi … The names of many remote villages in North Africa were written into history in 1941-1942 as British and Axis armies battled back and forth across the scrubby desert wastelands of northern Egypt and Libya. Read more
WWII History November 2004
General Douglas MacArthur’s Navy
By Glenn BarnettIn November 1941, the U.S. Asiatic Fleet weighed anchor in Shanghai, China, for the last time. Alarmed by the growing hostility and aggressiveness of the Japanese, Admiral Thomas Hart ordered the outnumbered and outgunned American vessels moved to the relative safety of Manila Bay in the Philippines. Read more
WWII History November 2004
The B-25 Mitchell Bomber and the Man Behind the Plane
By Sam McGowanDuring the 1920s, roughly two decades before the B-25 Mitchell bomber came into service, U.S. Army Air Service commander Brig. Read more
WWII History November 2004
The End of the Battle of the Bulge
By Arnold BlumbergWednesday, December 27, 1944, found the military situation in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium stalemated. After 12 days of unrelenting struggle, the American and German forces on this part of the Western Front found themselves locked in brutal combat, unable to drive each other back. Read more
WWII History November 2004
Operation Greif: Assassinate Eisenhower?
By Charles WhitingOn the morning of Monday, December 18, 1944, a mixed group of white MPs and black American service troops stood guard on the little bridge at Aywaille in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium. Read more
WWII History November 2004
Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey
By Glenn BarnettJust before dawn, the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise turned into the wind to launch her planes. Nervous and excited pilots roared into the darkness of the vast Pacific toward the unsuspecting Japanese. Read more
