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Vanishing Eyewitnesses
What is Lost
What happens to history when those who lived it are gone?
Rick Atkinson
32
'My Bit of History'
Six veterans tell their war stories
36
Changing Places
The ebb of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in photographs
Stanley Greenberg
44
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Horse Tale
How Patton—and a strange cast of Germans, Poles, and Czechs—saved the prized Lipizzaners in the last days of the war
Karen Jensen
52
Revisiting the Venlo Incident
Nazis snatched two bumbling British spies in 1939, smashing an entire MI6 network
Nigel Jones
60
Weapons Manual
The Doughty Spitfire
Britain's famed fighter saved that nation in 1940, but was overtaken by superior American planes
Max Gadney
68
DEPARTMENTS
Mail
6
World War II Today
The Mexican Air Force finally gets its due; Gerhard Weinberg's reading list; Churchill's war rooms were unsafe; endangered World War II sites
10
War Letters
A B-17 crew details a pilot's last bombing run for his widow
Andrew Carroll
19
Conversation
Antony Beevor finds there is more to say about D-Day and Normandy
Gene Santoro
22
Unknown Soldiers
An army doctor figures out a stopgap cure for shell-shocked troops
Stephen Budiansky
25
Time Travel
A son retraces his father's 1943 path through Sicily
Gene Santoro
26
What If…
…Ike had pushed through to take Berlin before the Russians did?
Mark Grimsley
71
Reviews
American subs unleashed; the battle for Norway; Tarantino's Basterds
75
Challenge
WWII goes sci-fi
87
Pinup
88
WEB EXTRA
Lost and Found
World War II readers share their loved ones' memories of the war
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