Description
Contents: Editorial; Undercover (“Stop or I fire. Don’t use your radio” signaled Atlantis as her camouflage dropped and a German battle flag ran up her mast); Armament (The initial report of the Tiger’s 88 signaled the demise of the entire Soviet armored column); Personality (Facing the might of the Afrika Korps, Bir Hakeim’s garrison included 3,723 Foreign Legionnaires and Susan Travers, une Legionnaire); Books (A galaxy of stars and an obedient dog named Tyrone made USO memories for singer Maxine Andrews); Perspectives (The tall, thin man predicting German victory was American hero Charles Lindbergh); WWWI Marketplace; Allied Agony At Anzio (British Prime Minister Winston Churchill found American Maj. Gen. John P. Lucas’ cautiousness at Anzio infuriating. “I had hoped we were hurling a wildcat into the shore,” he thundered, “but all we got was a stranded whale.”); Soviet Encirclement Thwarted (In order to maintain the momentum of a general offensive, Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev’s advance units had bypassed Kirovograd. But now the stubbornly defended city was disrupting his supply and communications network); Specialist In Diversion (“Over the top, men,” whispered Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., when he and his Beach Jumpers reached the stone wall. “I then noticed that there were no vines or footholds on the wall,” he recalled. “I realized that this wasn’t the movies…”); Commander’s Calculated Risk (The Americans had made some costly mistake when they invaded Tarawa in November, 1943. For Kwajalein, the preliminary bombardment would be more intense)
Issue: January 1994
Condition: Very Good