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D-DAY
JUMPING INTO
EYEWITNESS
Bloody Struggle
for Gold Beach
NORMANDY
Survival on the
OPERATION DRAGOON
Russian Front
Rampage
LOST BATTALION
on the Riviera
Heroic Stand
in the Philippines
NAVAL ASSAULT ON MUNDA
SUMMER 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
WWII QUARTERLY
Features
12
From the Great North to Normandy
Although often overlooked, Canadian troops did their part to ensure
victory on D-Day.
DOROTHY BROTHERTON
24
Naval Assault on Munda
32
Suicide or Surrender
Task Force 67’s assault on Munda in the Central Solomons in January
1943 was the first action in which the U.S. Navy coordinated surface,
submarine, and aircraft units in a night bombardment.
JOHN J. DOMAGALSKI
A young German officer recalls his personal struggles for survival and
the life-and-death battles against the Soviets during his time on the
Eastern Front.
WILLIAM LUBBECK & DAVID HURT
44
Short Flight into the Drink
46
Departments
06
Editorial
What I did last summer (and fall).
FLINT WHITLOCK
A Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber spun into the Pacific Ocean
seconds after launch.
KEVIN M. HYMEL
The Lost Battalion of Leyte
In October 1944, although cut off and running out of food and
ammunition, a battalion of the U.S. 24th Infantry Division gave the
Japanese all they could handle.
NATHAN N. PREFER
54
Strangling the Enemy
Operation Strangle seemed like a promising way to cut off the movement
of enemy troops and supplies in Italy. The only problem was the air
interdiction campaign did not work.
JEFF PATTON
64
From Paratrooper to POW
74
Bombing Our Friends
86
08
96
Personality
Klenk and Clunk: “Your average naval aviator” battled
Japanese destroyers in his Curtiss SB2C Helldiver.
ROBERT F. DORR
Paratrooper Bob Nobles fought for a week in Normandy with the 82nd
Airborne Division until captured by the Germans. Then his new war
began.
KEVIN M. HYMEL
Mueseums
The D-Day Invasion Museum in Arromanches-les-Bains is
one of many fine military museums in Normandy.
FLINT WHITLOCK
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The frequent bombing of the beautiful medieval city of Rouen, France,
caused widespread death and destruction—and resentment toward the
Allies.
FLINT WHITLOCK
Rampage on the Riviera
D-DAY
JUMPING INTO
In August 1944, the Allies followed up the massive Normandy invasion
with another in southern France known as Operation Dragoon.
LENN BARNETT & ANDRÉ BERNOLE
Bloody Struggle
for Gold Beach
COVER: A U.S. tank crew looks
for retreating Germans in the
days following Allied landings
on the southern coast of France.
See story page 86.
Photo: National Archives
NORMANDY
EYEWITNESS
Survival on the
OPERATION DRAGOON
Russian Front
Rampage
LOST BATTALION
on the Riviera
Heroic Stand
in the Philippines
NAVAL ASSAULT ON MUNDA
SUMMER 2015
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