WWII Quarterly Spring 2018
The General Patton Memorial Museum
Raymond E. Bell, Jr.Thirty miles east of Indio, California, is the General Patton Memorial Museum, a special museum dedicated to General George S. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2018
The T-34 Tank: The Story of Soviet Russia’s Rugged Armored Vehicle
By Phil ZimmerDecember 1941 was a dark month and the end of a dark year for the Soviets as the Germans pressed ever onward toward Moscow, the lair where Joseph Stalin and his minions plotted what to do next against the Nazi juggernaut that had, in a few short months, rolled over everything before them. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2018
Ireland in World War II: The Swastika vs. The Shamrock
By James BilderThe south of Ireland, officially known as Eire and often referred to by many residing there as the “Free State,” declared its neutrality when World War II erupted suddenly in September 1939. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2018
The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria led to Japan’s Greatest Defeat
By Nathan N. Prefer
To the Soviet military, it is known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Although it had no official name to the Japanese, it has become known in the West as Operation August Storm. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2018
The U.S. Navy’s Seabees: Bulldozing a Road to Victory
By Glenn Barnett
As war clouds gathered over the vast Pacific Ocean in the late 1930s, the United States belatedly began to think of protecting the nation’s possessions of far-flung islands and atolls. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2018
Operation Barbarossa: How Stalin was Blindsided by Berlin
By Richard Z. Freemann, Jr.
“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”
—Winston Churchill (1950)
On Sunday, June 22, 1941, as the sun slumbered, 3.6 million soldiers, 2,000 warplane pilots, and 3,350 tank commanders under skilled German command crouched at the border of Soviet-occupied Poland ready to invade the Communist nation Joseph Stalin had ruled with steel-fisted brutality for years. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2018
Armored Clash in Alsace-Lorraine
By Allyn VannoyThe American light tanks, bringing up much needed supplies, were in column as they began to take fire. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2018
C-47 Crew Chief’s Four Flights into Hell
By Elmer Wisherd with Nan Wisherd
Elmer Wisherd was born on December 1, 1920, in North Dakota. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to a farm in Bruce, Wisconsin. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2018
Siege of Bastogne: The Battle for Noville
By Kevin M. Hymel
It was December 19, 1944, one day before the Siege of Bastogne. Shortly after 10:30 am, 26-year-old Major William Desobry picked up his field telephone, called his combat commander, Colonel William Roberts, and asked if he could withdraw from the Belgian village of Noville. Read more
