WWII Quarterly Spring 2019
From the time of the Wright brothers, the vast majority of aircraft were biplanes with two wings stacked one above the other. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2019
By Nathan N. Prefer
In the months that led up to Doolittle’s raiders assembling to strike back at Tokyo, President Franklin D. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2019
Many consider the Battle of Moscow in late 1941 to be the first turning point of World War II on the Eastern Front. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2019
By Blaine Taylor
The Russian winter of 1941-1942 hit with terrible ferocity. Battling the deadly, numbing cold as well as the massive numbers of Red Army troops were soldiers from sunny Spain. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2019
By Dick Camp, Col., USMC, Ret.
Superior Private Tomisaburo Sawa of the Imperial Japanese Army fixed the bayonet on his Type 99 Arisaka rifle and carefully checked to make sure the weapon was loaded. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2019
It was February 1945, and the Bombing of Dresden had yet to commence. At this point in the war, the citizens of the capital of the German state of Saxony were beginning to think that they were living a charmed life. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2019
BACKSTORY: Dan Dougherty graduated from Central High School in Austin, Minnesota in June 1943 and was immediately activated from the Army Reserve. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2019
By Kevin M. Hymel
“OH MY GOD!” thought tanker Joe Cotten. “We’re shooting machine guns at a Tiger Royal!” It was late December 1944 in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, near the German border. Read more
WWII Quarterly Spring 2019
The Battle of Berlin began with what a German colonel called “a dull, continuous roar of thunder from the east.” Read more
