Description
Contents: Editorial; Armament (Only the Germans had a robot wandering the battlefield – their diminutive giant called “Goliath”); Undercover (For the U.S. Marines in the Pacific, Navaho “code-talkers” were a secret communications weapon until the war’s end); Personality (Field Marshal Model earned his nickname as Hitler’s “fireman” – until the bitter end); Books (As the Japanese swept south, Australia faced her peril with miles upon miles of defenseless northern shoreline…and not much else); Marauders’ Trail Of Fire (“Vinegar Joe” Stilwell and Merrill’s Marauders combined forces for the rough, supply-starved campaign against the Japanese airbase at tongue-twisting Myitkyina); Mercy Flight In Peril (For two PBY’s sent to evacuate personnel from besieged Corregidor, getting there was one story. Getting back was another); Hurricane At Dawn (The airmen of No. 451 Squadron awoke one morning to find German panzers parked in their desert airstrip. In seconds, the scramble was on); Deadly River Bank (At the Moro river in Italy, the “Hasty P’s” showed why they would earn more battle honors than any other Canadian Army regiment in the war)
Issue: March 1989
Condition: Very Good