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FEATURES
Christmas in Wartime By Stanley Weintraub Amid separation and loss, the holidays took on new meaning for soldiers and families alike.
A World War II Christmas Album Packages from home, really bad Santas, and war as usual.
Rangers at Dieppe By Jim DeFelice For U.S. Special Forces, the 1942 debacle was their baptism by fire.
Precursor to Pearl? By Richard P. Hallion Britain's audacious 1940 air raid at Taranto foreshadowed the Japanese strike a year later.
The Not-So-Great Escape: German POWs in the U.S. during WWII By Ronald H. Bailey The Nazi POW breakout in?Arizona was daring—and farcical.
Radar vs. U-boats By Max Gadney New detection methods tipped the Battle of the Atlantic.
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WWII Today Positive ID on the famous Times Square kisser; finding the USS Grunion; what makes a hero; overly enthusiastic SS reenactors
Conversation with Michael J. Neufeld A hard look at Nazi rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun
Unknown Soldiers The modern Mata Hari who proved the adage about love and war By Stephen Budiansky
Time Travel Where the A-bomb was born By Johnny D. Boggs
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War Letters A sailor's poignant Christmas gift By Andrew Carroll
Reviews Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Marshall; Hitler's Olympics; Hiroshima DVD
Challenge What did this spider do for the war effort?
What If …America hadn't taken Iwo Jima? By Mark Grimsley
Pin Up
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ONLINE EXTRAS
German Submarine U-505 Crewmember Hans Goebeler Recalls Being Captured During World War II>
Joseph Stilwell's Escape from Burma During World War II
Pearl Harbor Attack: Lieutenant Lawrence Ruff Survived the Attack Aboard the USS Nevada<
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