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Cover Story
Yanks in the Royal Air Force
A few Americans helped win the Battle of Britain
By Alexander Kershaw
Russia's Ice Road Truckers
A deadly route kept Leningrad alive during the 900-day siege
Steven Trent Smith
Portfolio
Waiting in the Wings
A look at the hidden treasures in the National World War II Museum archives
"What the Hell?"
The U.S. Navy's top-secret mission to check the weather and stir up trouble in China
By Linda Kush
Weapons Manual
The Me 262 Jet Fighter
The world's first combat jet fighter was deadly, but too little, too late for Germany
By Max Gadney
The Bridge to the Beach
Andrew Higgins's brilliant watercraft was based on a Japanese design
By Robert Coram
DEPARTMENTS
Mail
World War II Today
Stalin's invasion of Virginia
Peter Mansoor's Reading List
Hawaii's bomb trouble
Conversation
Tracing the wartime roots of a human-skin lampshade
By Gene Santoro
War Letters
A Dresdener recounts the horror of the firebombing
By Andrew Carroll
Unknown Soldiers
Bazooka Ed
By Stephen Budiansky
Time Travel
Hammerfest, Norway
By Susan Zimmerman
Reviews
Manstein Biographies
Escape from Davao
Storm over the Pacific computer game
What If…
…the Allies had not broken German naval code?
By Mark Grimsley
Challenge
A bird that spits fire
Pinup
Could you please take my father's name off and just keep mine on there as he passed away in Feb 12, 2010.
Thanks,
Donna Stallings
301-616-5120