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GUADALCANAL
Japanese
Onslaught
EYEWITNESS
AT MIDWAY
at the Tenaru River
USS Yorktown
Last Stand
DIEPPE LANDING
AT LEIPZIG
Canadian
Killing
Ground
Battle for the
ALEUTIANS
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WWII QUARTERLY
Features
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The “Green Hell” of Guadalcanal
Marine Corps combat veterans relive the dangerous and deadly work
in some of the war’s toughest fighting.
ADAM MAKOS & MARCUS BROTHERTON
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Last Stand in Leipzig
Decided against advancing on Berlin, American troops captured
Germany’s fifth largest city, taking a monument to a 19th-century
victory over Napoleon in the process.
MICHAEL E. HASKEW
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Behind Barbed Wire in America
The forced relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II
was a blot on the nation’s moral authority.
RICHARD HIGGINS
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Disaster at Dieppe
Many lessons in how to invade France were learned during Operation
Jubilee, but at a cost to the Canadian and British invaders.
JON DIAMOND
Departments
06
12
Editorial
The man behind the name on the memorial.
FLINT WHITLOCK
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Mayhem at Midway
WWII Personality
A young sailor aboard the doomed carrier
Yorktown
recounts the
battle that sank the ship and almost cost him his life.
CAROL EDGEMON HIPPERSON
America’s controversial ambassador to Great Britain,
and father of a future U.S. president, wanted to keep
America out of the war rather than confront the Nazi
menace.
PETER KROSS
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Yellow Star vs. Swastika
After escaping from Germany and Austria, a number of Jews joined
the Allied armies to take back their former homelands from the Nazis.
STEVEN KARRAS
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Museums
The Japanese American National Museum tells of
wartime travails.
MASON B. WEBB
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When Japan Invaded America
GUADALCANAL
To the Japanese, the Aleutian Islands looked like the perfect stepping
stones to America’s West Coast. Neither side expected the difficulties
these islands would represent.
STEPHEN D. LUTZ
Japanese
Onslaught
at the Tenaru River
USS Yorktown
EYEWITNESS
AT MIDWAY
Last Stand
AT LEIPZIG
COVER: An American infantryman
on Guadalcanal, photographed on
the 1500 foot peak dubbed the
“grassy knoll.” Ralph Morse,
Time & Life Pictures / Getty
Images
Canadian
Killing
Ground
Battle for the
DIEPPE LANDING
ALEUTIANS
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