WWII Figures
Dick Cole, 103, Last of the Doolittle Raiders
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942
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Conversation with Dick Cole, the Last of the Doolittle Raiders
A conversation with Dick Cole who copiloted the lead B-25 with Doolittle in the famous 1942 raid...
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Experience | Tanks for the Memories
In 1918 Captain George S. Patton Jr. sent his wife, Beatrice, a blow-by-blow account of his role in the Saint-Mihiel offensive
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Book Reviews: Churchill Biography and Hitler Analysis
Churchill, flaws and all; the political origins of Hitler; and the strange friendship of Mussolini and the German dictator
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Battle Films: The Imitation Game
The Academy Award-winning film downplays key historic details in the breaking of Germany’s Enigma code, yet still packs a powerful punch.
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Battle Films: Rommel (2012)
In 2012 film Rommel, the myth of the famous German general as an apolitical figure falls apart
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Battle Films: The Desert Fox
"Battle Films"columnist Mark Grimsley takes on the movie that made the myth behind German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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Book Review: A Dangerous Woman by Susan Ronald
Wealth, night clubs, decadent balls. Author Susan Gould write how socialite Florence Gould had it all—and did anything to keep it when war came to France.
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Book Review: Glory in Their Spirit By Sandra M. Bolzenius
In "Glory in Their Spirit," author Sandra M. Bolzenius uncovers the tensions surrounding the military regarding race and sex during World War II.
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The Man Who Started World War II
Alfred Naujocks was an SS expert in dirty deeds done well, charged with making Poland appear a villain
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Book Review: Asperger’s Children by Edith Sheffer
Historian Edith Sheffer’s delves into the horrors of Spiegelgrund, a children's hospital where a doctor named Hans Asperger focused his efforts on children whose “deviant behavior”mfailed to conform to the Nazi Aryan ideology.
WWII Battles
Fire for Effect: Road to Nowhere in Burma
"Despite the incredible constancy and valor of the men who fought there, maybe none of the great powers...had a clear understanding of what they were doing in Burma," muses columnist Robert M. Citino on the Allied role and their impact during the Burma campaign.
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WWII Drawing Reveals Life of an A-20B Bomber Pilot
A reader submits an interesting illustration by a WWII pilot found at an estate sale. Curators at the National WWII Museum track down its meaning.
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Battlefield as Crime Scene: The Japanese Massacre in Manila
In acts of shocking brutality, Japanese soldiers and marines massacred tens of thousands of civilians as American troops advanced into Manila in early 1945
