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Brutal Tank Fight for Okinawa
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Hell in the
Hürtgen Forest
Patton Defeated
AT FT. DRIANT
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DIVISION EYEWITNESS:
Life and Death
IAN FLEMING’s
British Commandos
on the Front Lines
JAPAN’S HORROR SQUAD
RAF
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Features
WWII QUARTERLY
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Britain’s Decisive Aerial Victory
One of the most crucial battles of the war was fought, not on the
ground, but in the skies above England on September 15, 1940.
DAVID ALAN JOHNSON
Death Ride of the Shermans
During savage fighting on Okinawa in April 1945, a U.S. tank battal-
ion suffered the greatest single combat loss of tanks in the entire
Pacific War.
NATHAN N. PREFER
Forest of Death
Winter weather, difficult terrain, and stiff German resistance in the
Hürtgen Forest devoured U.S. divisions during the battle for
Schmidt.
NATHAN N. PREFER
50
”A Light-Hearted War
Ian Fleming did more than create the James Bond spy novels; he
also helped create 30AU, pne of Britain’s most daring and successful
commando units.
MARK SIMMONS
58
Japan’s Hellish Unit 731
Departments
06
Editorial
A rugged lady finds a home at Wright-Pat.
FLINT WHITLOCK
In conquered Manchuria, ghastly experiments were fiendishly
conducted on human guinea pigs.
DAVID D. BARRETT
64
Too Many Close Calls
A mortarman with the 100th Infantry Division describes life—and
death—on the front lines in France and Germany.
FLINT WHITLOCK
08
Wartime Tragedy
Of the 39 Marines aboard the USS
Indianapolis
when
it sank, only nine were rescued.
RICHARD CAMP
76
Building Burma’s Notorious Death Railway
The forgotten POWs who built the real “Bridge on the River Kwai”
suffered great abuse but also displayed great courage.
MARK SIMNER
94
Museums
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Historic aircraft live again at the National Museum of
World War II Aviation in
Brutal Tank Fight for Okinawa
Colorado Springs.
FLINT WHITLOCK
Hell in the
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Patton’s Lost Battle
The firebrand American general suffered his only military defeat
during the fighting at Fort Driant in the fall of 1944.
DUANE E. SHAFFER
Hürtgen Forest
COVER: A tank crew from Company C,
193rd Tank Battalion, prepares to
advance near Kakazu Ridge on Okinawa
and into the open country beyond in
April 1945. See story page 28.
Photo: National Archives
Patton Defeated
AT FT. DRIANT
100
TH
DIVISION EYEWITNESS:
Life and Death
IAN FLEMING’s
British Commandos
on the Front Lines
JAPAN’S HORROR SQUAD
RAF
VS
. THE LUFTWAFFE:
FALL 2018
RETAILER DISPLAY UNTIL DEC. 24
$9.99US
84
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