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Contents: Editorial; Personality (“Can the dead give evidence” asked Konstantin Rokossovsky while on trial for his life. Later, he would stand up to Stalin); Undercover (General Maxwell Taylor risked being shot as a spy to gauge Italian support for an airborne assault on Rome); Armament (On September 1, 1943, the U.S. Navy unleashed an awesome new weapon – The Essex-class aircraft carriers); Reviews (“Old Hickory” stood up to German steel at Mortain to preserve the Allied breakout); Perspectives (Serious logistics problems meant the Allied successes in the late summer of 1944 would not result in victory by Christmas); WWII Marketplace; Axis Capital Captured (Rome was in Allied hands, but to many officers, General Mark W. Clark’s victory was hollow, as thousands of German soldiers escaped to fight another day); Greatest Aircraft Carrier Duel (Off Saipan, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance waited for Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa to make the first move – not out of timidity, but out of confidence that his carrier planes could beat back anything the Japanese threw at him); Breakout’s Final Barrier (The flag-draped coffin of Major Thomas D. Howe, reverently placed before the ruins of the Ste. Croix Church, symbolized the American sacrifice for the strategically important town of St. Lo); Disastrous Reckoning Day (Refusing to deviate from Hitler’s orders, General Field Marshall Ernst Busch led Army Group Center to destruction on the Eastern Front – a debacle whose magnitude exceeded that of Stalingrad)
Issue: July 1994
Condition: Very Good