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World War II, World War II Magazine
CLARIFICATION ON MCCAULEY I recently received the October 2005 issue of World War II Magazine that contained the memoir “In Enemy Hands,” which was written by my late husband Dr. Charles McCauley. Although in general I was very pleased...
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World War II Magazine
The enormity of the crime defies comprehension. In all the long sordid history of man’s inhumanity to man, the Holocaust stands out as the most barbaric. Fortunately, in the 60-plus years since it began, Germany’s descent into madness...
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Military History
This book is The Nightingale meets All the Light We Cannot See, only it's all true....
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MHQ Magazine
In 1942, disconsolate over his wife’s death, Clark Gable enlisted in the U.S. Army. Then he nearly lost his own life in the skies over Germany....
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HistoryNet
The largest airborne assault the world has ever seen collides with the bloody realities on the ground....
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World War II Magazine
Jagdgeschwader 301/302 “Wilde Sau,” In Defense of the Reich with the Bf 109, Fw 190 and Ta 152 by Willi Reschke; Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, Pa., 2005, $39.95. Jagdgeschwader 301/302 “Wilde Sau” is a unit history with a...
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World War II Magazine
In the waning days of spring 1940 it was almost possible to forget there was a war on. True, Poland had been overrun and the boys had been mobilized again, but for months the British and French armies had sat in northern France waiting for...
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World War II Magazine
On a late summer night in September 1940, millions of Americans sat near their radios mesmerized by the penetrating voice that brought a distant war into their living rooms. “Off to my left, far away in the distance, I can see just that...
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World War II Magazine
Comfortably bedded down for the night, VII Fighter Command personnel on Iwo Jima were rudely awakened by the sudden appearance of hundreds of Japanese soldiers bent on their destruction. Almost again standing at ease, Lieutenant General...
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World War II Magazine
During a perilous passage across the Mediterranean to deliver supplies to their hard–pressed forces in Tunisia, Italian torpedo boats engaged in a David–and-Goliath confrontation with the Royal Navy. Fifteen miles southwest of...
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World War II Magazine
Waves of United States Marines moved toward their landing beaches on the tiny volcanic island of Iwo Jima in February 1945. Aboard their LVTs (landing vehicles, tracked), the more experienced among them hunkered down as low as they could...
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World War II Magazine
Major General Kurt Student, the commander of Germany’s 7th Air Division, was trying to restore order in Rotterdam on the morning of May 14, 1940, after he had helped conclude peace negotiations with the Dutch, who had been defeated in a...
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World War II Magazine
NAME: William Eaton DATE ENTERED SERVICE: 1941 CAMPAIGNS: Pacific Raids—1942, Marshall Islands, Western New Guinea, Leyte Operations, Luzon Operations, Iwo Jima Operations DECORATIONS: Navy Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Medal,...
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World War II Magazine
GREETINGS FROM GUAM I deeply apologize for my long delay in letting you know that I received the magazine with your article on the George Ray Tweed story you sent me (“Undercover,” June 2005). You did a great job. It was well written,...
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World War II Magazine
“Blitzkrieg,” more than any other word, conjures up the pace of military operations during World War II. As soon as it is spoken, you can almost hear the clank of tank treads and the screech of Stuka dive bombers as they drive...
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MHQ Magazine
It was the first precision-guided weapon to be deployed in combat and the first to sink a ship in combat....
