FEATURES
Special Report:
Vanishing Eyewitnesses
What is Lost
What happens to history when those who lived it are gone?
By Rick Atkinson
‘My Bit of History’
Six veterans tell their war stories
Changing Places
The ebb of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in photographs
By Stanley Greenberg
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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
By Karen Jensen
Revisiting the Venlo Incident
Nazis snatched two bumbling British spies in 1939, smashing an entire MI6 network
By Nigel Jones
Weapons Manual
The Doughty Spitfire
Britain’s famed fighter saved that nation in 1940, but was overtaken by superior American planes
By Max Gadney
WEB EXTRA
Lost and Found
World War II readers share their loved ones’ memories of the war
DEPARTMENTS
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
War Letters
A B-17 crew details a pilot’s last bombing run for his widow
By Andrew Carroll
Conversation
Antony Beevor finds there is more to say about D-Day and Normandy
By Gene Santoro
Unknown Soldiers
An army doctor figures out a stopgap cure for shell-shocked troops
By Stephen Budiansky
Time Travel
A son retraces his father’s 1943 path through Sicily
By Gene Santoro
What If…
…Ike had pushed through to take Berlin before the Russians did?
By Mark Grimsley
Reviews
American subs unleashed; the battle for Norway; Tarantino’s Basterds
Challenge
WWII goes sci-fi
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