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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WWII QUARTERLY
Features
16
Dark Days of Spring
Not even the timely intervention of the British Expeditionary Force
could prevent France and Belgium from falling to the 1940 German
Blitzkrieg. But it was at Dunkirk that the force was saved.
MARK SIMMONS
30
Prisoner of the Gestapo: Freed by Words
In his wartime journal, teenager Peter Aage Jorgensen recounts his
ordeal at the hands of the Nazis and his ultimate release.
SUSAN ZIMMERMAN
42
Action Off Santa Cruz
A tactical Japanese naval victory actually hastened the defeat of the
empire.
DAVID ALAN JOHNSON
54
Freeing Mont Saint Michel
A single American soldier liberated one of France’s greatest landmarks.
KEVIN M. HYMEL
60
Zhukov Strikes Back
Hitler’s 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union nearly succeeded until a
desperate counterattack, combined with a brutal winter, turned certain
Soviet defeat into ultimate victory.
JEFF CHRISMAN
Departments
06
Editorial
Civilization under siege.
FLINT WHITLOCK
74
Battling for Bougainville
To neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul, American troops
would need to take Bougainville in the Solomon Islands—a mission
easier ordered than done.
JON DIAMOND
08
Weapons
The Mosquito, an unconventional wooden British
warplane, should not have been a success against
the Axis powers, but it was.
PHIL ZIMMER
Desperate
Winter War
COVER: A German soldier
motions his unit forward during
bitter Winter combat in Russia.
See story page 60.
Photograph: Bundesarchiv
Bild 101I-277-0835-16,
Photo: Jacob
Patton’s War
Across France
THIRD ARMY
RUSSIAN FRONT
88
American Drive to the Moselle
In September 1944, the American Third Army in France mounted a
drive to bridge the Moselle River at Dieulouard and cut the German
forces in two.
ALLYN VANNOY
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Blitzkrieg!
EXCLUSIVE:
THE FALL OF FRANCE
Liberation of
Mont St. Michel
SUMMER 2016
Battle for Bougainville
NAVAL FIGHT AT SANTA CRUZ
JUNGLE NIGHTMARE
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