Description
Contents: Editorial; Armament (Sailors aboard the nearby Houston actually saw daylight between Marblehead‘s keel and the sea); Undercover (The valiant Maquisards rained grenades upon the enemy struggling up the steep cliffs); Personality (Sharing his Russian invasion plans with Ion Antoneseu, Adolf Hitler asserted, “I don’ need fanatics, but a healthy Rumanian army.”); Books (When the 6th Ranger Battalion entered Cabanatuan, it’s men were shocked at the sight of the former prisoners); Perspectives (The dark days of WWII were the backdrop for the golden age of radio news and entertainment); WWII Marketplace; Week Of Relentless Bombing (For seven consecutive days in February 1944 the Allied air forces assaulted cities and military targets inside the Third Reich. Long-range fighter escorts made the BF-109s and Fw-190s of the Luftwaffe another quarry); Leapfrogging The Coast (To hasten the advance along the coast of western New Guinea, General Douglass MacArthur planned to bypass the heavily defended areas of Wewak and Hansa Bay. Instead, he made a 560-mile jump to Hollandia); Hollywood Goes To War (How serious was the film industry in a United States on the brink of war! Enough for the Germans to label Confessions Of A Nazi Spy the product of a “conspiracy” and for isolationist Senator Gerald Nye to denounce Sergeant York as “war hysteria”); The Real Great Escape (An underground cottage in escape accessories existed at Stalag Luft III. But all of those creations would be worthless if the Allied prisoners could not tunnel their way out)
Issue: March 1994
Condition: Very Good