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RUSSIAN FRONT
Bloody Failure at
Stalingrad
Duel to the Death
ON SAIPAN
Infantry Assault on
KOENIGSMACKER
10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION
Brutal Fight
Across Italy
Storming Hitler’s
FALL 2015
Atlantic Wall
KAMIKAZE ATTACK!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
WWII QUARTERLY
Features
18
Skiing Off to War
A veteran of the famed 10th Mountain Division recounts his
training and combat in Italy with America’s only division specially trained
for mountain and winter warfare.
BRUCE K. CAMPBELL WITH GLENN BARNETT
30
Duel to the Death
Capturing an important airfield was why two Marine divisions, along with
a U.S. Army division, were landed on the island of Saipan. No one foresaw
the even greater consequences of the battle’s outcome.
DAVID ALAN JOHNSON
42
Smashing Hitler’s Atlantic Wall
Nazi Germany spent many years (and a fortune) creating an
invasion-proof barrier, only to have it breached in the span of
a morning.
FLINT WHITLOCK
56
Agony on the Afterdeck
Battered by devastating kamikaze strikes off Okinawa, the crew of the
destroyer USS
Laffey
(DD-724) fought heroically to save their lives and
their ship.
JOHN WUKOVITS
Departments
06
Editorial
Marching in the footsteps of heroes.
FLINT WHITLOCK
66
Stunning Victories, Ultimate Defeat
German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein’s efforts to rescue the Sixth
Army at Stalingrad turned into a disaster of unimaginable proportions
for Germany.
R. JEFF CHRISMAN
08
Investigation
Was the deadly 1937 Japanese attack on the USS
Panay
in China’s Yangtze River a case of mistaken identity or
something more sinister?
CHUCK LYONS
78
Conquering Koenigsmacker
During the struggle for the fortified French city of Metz, General Patton
threw the U.S. 90th Division at the sturdy walls in a
desperate attempt to crack the German defensive line.
RAYMOND E. BELL, JR.
96
Museums
Curtis 02313
Lubbock, Texas—once home to the U.S. Army’s largest
glider pilot school—now
hosts the Silent Wings
Museum.
Bloody Failure at
DONALD ABBE
Stalingrad
RUSSIAN FRONT
88
The Last Flight of the Lonesome Polecat
In February 1944, an American B-24 on a mission to bomb a V-1 launching
site crashed into a small French town. It’s a crash that reverberates today.
DIANE CONDON-BOUTIER
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Duel to the Death
ON SAIPAN
COVER: A German dispatch
rider on the Russian Front
wears the Iron Cross First Class
and Infantry Assault Badge.
See story page 66.
Photo: © SZ Photo / Scherl /
The Image Works
Infantry Assault on
KOENIGSMACKER
10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION
Brutal Fight
Across Italy
Storming Hitler’s
Atlantic Wall
FALL 2015
KAMIKAZE ATTACK!
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