Description
Contents: Editorial; Armament (Rushed from blueprint into battle, the landing ship, tank (LST) proved to be a logistical wonder); Personality (Mysterious Martin Bormann was the only high-ranking Nazi tried in absentia at Nuremberg); Undercover (The Allies gained a windfall of technical information through Project Lusty and Paperclip); Reviews (Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley failed to tighten the noose in time to trap thousands of German soldiers at Falaise); Perspectives (“We should go as far as Berlin…!” roared FDR. Postwar Germany, however, would have a much different look than he envisioned); WWII Marketplace; Siege And Surrender Of Konigsberg (Thousands of refugees fled the advancing Red Army, but the haven they sought, the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg, also became their prison); Luftwaffe Ace Gunther Rall Remembers (Gunther Rall became a legend flying the Messerschmitt Bf-109, scoring 275 aerial victories against the aerial armadas of Britain, Russia and the United States); Remagen: The Allies Bridge To Victory (At Remagen, 2nd Lt. Karl Timmermann became the first officer of an invading army to fight his way across the Rhine River since the age of Napoleon); Carrier Franklin’s Valiant Fight For Life (Wracked by a pair of Japanese bombs, huge internal explosions and raging fires, the carrier USS Franklin refused to die – nor was her crew prepared to let her)
Issue: March 1995
Condition: Very Good