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World War II John Bryant |
Robert Felgar: A Bomber Pilot Remembers An interview with Robert Felgar about being shot down and captured in WWII. |
World War II |
Letters From Readers - January/February 2008 - World War II One of the greatest acts of mass murder in the history of warfare... I was a child survivor of the war in Shanghai, China... Lend-Lease tanks and aircraft only a small place in the Soviet force structure... etc. |
World War II April 22, 2004 Brian Todd Carey |
Operation Pointblank: Evolution of Allied Air Doctrine In October 1943, the U.S. Eighth Air Force's losses became critical, forcing a reappraisal of the American daylight bombing strategy. |
World War II Robert Barr Smith |
The Greatest Raid of All The British raid on St. Nazaire, France, eliminated a vital German port facility and cemented the commandos' reputation as redoubtable fighters. |
World War II Williamson Murray |
Airborne Comes of Age From Germany's first major drop into Norway in 1940 to the Allies' last airborne operation across the Rhine in March 1945, tens of thousands of airborne soldiers fell from the skies to fight behind enemy lines. |
World War II October 2005 Bob Hackett |
Japan's Underwater Convoys A series of top-secret Japanese submarine missions could have altered the course of World War II. |
Aviation History July 27, 2004 Walter A. Musciano |
Condor Legion: Luftwaffe in Spanish Skies During the Spanish Civil War, a group of German pilots that became known as the Condor Legion honed their hunting skills in Spain's skies. |
World War II Williamson Murray |
Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe. |
World War II Kelly Bell |
Costly Capture of Crete German air superiority eventually drove the Royal Navy from the waters off the Greek island, Crete, and ensured the success of a bloody airborne invasion. |
Aviation History January 2008 Michele May |
Aviators: Quentin Roosevelt - 'He died fighting' After Quentin, the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was killed in action on July 14, 1918, his grave became a mecca for Allied troops. |
World War II February 2006 Jonathan North |
Soviet Prisoners of War: Forgotten Nazi Victims of World War II For more than 60 years, the Wehrmacht has largely escaped scrutiny for its part in the deaths of more than 3.5 million Soviet prisoners of war. |
World War II Sherwood S. Cordier |
Red Star vs. the Rising Sun The undeclared conflict between the Soviet Union and imperial Japan at Khalkhin Gol cast a long shadow on subsequent events in the Pacific theater and on the Russian Front. |
Wired Nicholas Thompson |
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret. |
Salon.com March 28, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
Violating the dead Two books tell the truth about the most horrific battle of our time -- and a movie desecrates it... |
World War II February 2007 Dick Camp |
The Leatherneck Resistance: A Secret World War II OSS Mission An elite group of Marine paratroopers joins French freedom fighters on a covert mission behind enemy lines. |
World War II Robert LaRue |
Berkeley Summer: Building the Bomb A gathering of many of the world's greatest scientists in 1942, hosted by J. Robert Oppenheimer, laid the foundation for the development of the atomic bomb. |
World War II August 2006 Jonathan W. Jordan |
Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944 Operation Bagration, the Soviet offensive of 1944, made the Normandy landings look like a mere scuffle -- in size, scope, and results! |
Wired April 21, 2008 Sharon Weinberger |
Best: Never-Used Weapon Systems, From the USSR's Ekranoplan to the Puckle Gun A list of weapons systems that are probably best left in storage. |
World War II Gary Schreckengost |
Buying Time At The Battle Of The Bulge Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge. |
World War II May 25, 2004 David R. Jennys |
D-Day's Mighty Host A perilous airborne strike and the mightiest assemblage of seaborne power yet seen heralded the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. |
Aviation History June 5, 2004 C.V. Glines |
Operation Vittles: The Berlin Airlift Fifty years ago, a massive airlift into Berlin showed the Soviets that a post-WWII blockade would not work. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
World War II October 2007 Lloyd Clark |
Operation Market Garden Reconsidered A British historian argues that Operation Market Garden wasn't such a bad idea after all. |
Wired February 25, 2008 Jeremi Suri |
The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam New documents offer additional proof that Richard Nixon planned to end the Vietnam war with a fake nuclear strike on the USSR. |
Salon.com June 11, 2002 Allen Barra |
"The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor A historian describes Germany's fall to the Soviets in 1945, when civilians suffered the full fury and horror of war. |
World War II Jon Latimer |
Hitler's Boy Soldiers in Normandy In the summer of 1944, the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Panzer Division threw itself against the mighty Allied onslaught. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Samuel J. Newland |
Review Essay Book review: The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Robert M. Citino... Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse by Richard L. DiNardo... etc. |
World War II Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it. |
World War II May 25, 2004 Kevin R. Austra |
Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach As soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division leaped from their landing craft into the choppy waters off Omaha Beach, many cursed the landing-craft pilots who had deposited them too far away from the invasion beach. |
World War II March 2006 |
Battle of the Bulge: Robert Walter's Baptism of Fire Swept up in the largest American campaign of the war in Europe, Robert Walter remembers the Battle of the Bulge as a series of small dramas that played themselves out in the wooded hills near Elsenborn Ridge. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: The Cold War To bring you up to speed, we present five things you didn't know about the only war that categorically could have ended all wars through total and complete annihilation -- the Cold War. |
America's Civil War Glenn F. Williams |
Uncle Sam's Webfeet Organization and training were essential to coordinate the activities of the hundreds of men who crewed a Union man-of-war. |
Salon.com March 19, 2001 Stephen Lemons |
Jean-Jacques Annaud The renowned French director of "Quest for Fire," "The Lover" and "Seven Years in Tibet" provokes a firestorm over his breathtaking new war film, "Enemy at the Gates." |
World War II February 2007 |
Letters From Readers Was Wehrmacht Inside Abbey?... Blood for Dignity Revisited... Remembering Sassoon's Shanghai... Ship's Flag in Good Hands... Correction... |
Reason February 2003 Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |