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  • World War II1 min read
    Moving On Up
    Norman Lear was in his third semester at Boston’s Emerson College when he heard about the Pearl Harbor attack. He decided to enlist, but his parents talked him out of it. Finally he joined the Army Air Forces without telling them. He wanted to be a p
    World War II2 min read
    Mail Torpedo Failures
    You can thank a U.S. Navy captain in the ordnance department (and his friends in the bureaucracy) for trying to cover up the torpedo failures that were reported [“Damn the Torpedoes,” Winter 2024] rather than trying to fix things. The Mark 14 was a h
    World War II5 min read
    “You’re Just The Guy We’re Looking For”
    AS ALLAN W. OSTAR approaches his 100th birthday, he can look back with pride on a career as an academic administrator and education consultant. For many years, Allan was president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. But, a
    World War II2 min read
    Strangers On A Plane
    AT DUSK ON FEBRUA RY 22, 1943, Pan American Airways’ Yankee Clipper began its long descent to the Tagus River in Lisbon, Portugal. A few moments later, as raindrops pelted the windscreen and lightning lit up the sky, the tip of the left wing caught t
    World War II3 min read
    Lightning Strikes
    IF YOU ASK ME, World War II’s coolest airplane is the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. It looks like something a kid might have doodled in a notebook while daydreaming in class. I became enthralled with the airplane in junior high when I read a book by Marti
    World War II13 min readInternational Relations
    A Rescue Mission Gone Wrong
    Norman Crockatt is not a well-known name, but the British intelligence officer was responsible for one of the most controversial decisions of World War II. When the War Office in London created Military Intelligence Section 9 (MI9) on December 23, 19
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    The Eruption Of Mount Hood
    The motor launch tied up at the small-boat pier in Seeadler Harbor in New Guinea to disembark a dozen men from the ammunition carrier USS Mount Hood. The date was November 10, 1944. Led by the ship’s communications officer, Lieutenant Lester Hull Wal
    World War II2 min read
    War In The Jungle
    THE 1944-45 ALLIED RECONQUEST of Burma differed from other major Allied campaigns of World War II in that, in contrast with the campaign in North Africa, the invasions of Sicily, Italy, Normandy, and Southern France, and the American is landhopping c
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    Friend Or Foe?
    As some of you correctly guessed, we removed the landing gear from the Grumman F6F Hellcat aboard HMS Indomitable. Please email your answers to this issue’s challenge to challenge@historynet.com. SEE OUR SUMMER ISSUE FOR THE ANSWER TO THIS ISSUE’S C
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    Fighting For Lafiere Bridge
    On the evening of June 5, 1944, Louis Leroux, his wife, and their six children scrambled atop an embankment near their farm to investigate the sounds of distant explosions. Three miles south, Allied fighter-bombers were attacking bridges over the Dou
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    The Greenbrier Goes To War
    ROUNDING THE BEND past the guard gate, I catch my breath when I spy the Greenbrier resort’s main building. The Georgianstyle structure, wedding-cake white and six stories high, looms above f lower-speckled grounds that cover 7,000 acres and include c
    World War II3 min read
    A Royal Pain
    IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN apparent at the time, but Britain dodged a bullet in 1936 when King Edward VIII—denied his choice to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson— abdicated the throne for the woman he loved. Alexander Larman covered the abdication in
    World War II2 min readInternational Relations
    Aworld Of Conflict
    WORLD WAR II R ATING ★★★★★ THE BASICS Global War is a solitaire game played at a high strategic level where the player assumes control of the Allied nations to defeat the Axis powers. THE OBJECTIVE The objective is simple: defeat the Axis before aut
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    Fallen Captain’s Name To Grace New Navy Ship
    WHEN HE TOOK COMMAND of the destroyer USS Johnston in 1943, Commander Ernest E. Evans wanted his new crew to know exactly what they were getting into. “This is going to be a fighting ship,” he said. “I intend to go in harm’s way, and anyone who doesn
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    As Things Were
    ONCE ITALY SURRENDERED to the Allies in September 1943, the Germans moved into the vacuum. Rome was declared an “open city” by the Italian government, meaning it was unoccupied and off limits to attack, but Germany rushed in troops for an occupation
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    Wartime Weather Data Digitized
    FOR YEARS, scientists have been poring over old ship logs, scouring weather reports for clues about changes in the Earth’s climate. But there was a World War II-sized hole in their research: the hostilities disrupted commercial shipping and reduced t
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    The Fastest Ace In The West
    If Holly wood ever gets around to making a movie about “Scrappy ” Blumer, the plot won’t need any embellishment. In fact, scriptwriters might have to tone down Blumer’s extraordinary achievements and full-throttle shenanigans during World War II to m
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    The Worst Journey
    ON JULY 4, 1942, at a crisis moment for PQ 17, an Arctic merchant convoyen route to resupply the Soviet Union, John Broome received a fateful order direct from British First Sea Lord Dudley Pound: “Most Immediate… Convoy is to scatter.” Broome, PQ 17
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    “More Of Everything— Quick!”
    ''The First World War saw the first widespread use of propaganda to stir patriotic fervour,” note Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers in The Poster: A Visual History. “The need to raise vast sums of money from the public purse to fund the war spawned
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    Canada Accidentally Honors Former Nazi
    ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2023, Canadian lawmakers rose to applaud a 98-year-old World War II veteran. The speaker of the House of Commons called Yaruslav Hunka a “hero,” and the Ukrainian Canadian saluted in response. But this wasn’t the simple patriotic spe
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    Reality, Check!
    NOT SO LONG AGO, I had an extraordinary experience. I sat in the pilot’s seat of an Avro Lancaster, a British four-engine heavy bomber from World War II, gazing through the windshield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, England. The four Merlin engines
    World War II2 min readInternational Relations
    City Under Siege
    LIKE WASHINGTON D.C., Saint Petersburg—later renamed Petrograd, Leningrad, and currently back to Saint Petersburg—is an artificial capital city that was constructed mainly for political reasons. Both cities were also built in swampy locations that wo
    World War II3 min read
    Overrated General
    MACARTHUR RECONSIDERED General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander By James Ellman. 296 pp. Stackpole Books, 2023. $29.95 GENERAL DOUGLAS MacArthur remains a fascinating and confounding figure. Just as he always seemed to occupy the limelight
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    Stalingrad Of The Adriatic
    The Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment—a Canadian unit known as the Hasty Ps—were ordered to relieve the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers—the Faughs—on the afternoon of December 5, 1943. As part of the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Bernar
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    From The Pen Of Dr. Seuss
    He was not yet the iconic children’s book author we all know and love—he wouldn’t become that until after The Cat in the Hat became a bestseller in 1957—but Theodor Seuss Geisel made his voice heard in the months before the United States entered Worl
    World War II3 min read
    Eat At Mom’s
    YOUR ARTICLE “A Tragic Night in Utah” [Winter 2023] prompted me to make the trip to Salina, Utah. As suggested, I called ahead to Rodney Rasmussen to see if he would open up for one lousy guy from Moab. He did. Rodney is a very pleasant gentleman in
    World War II2 min read
    Murdered Polish Family Beatified By Pope
    THE NAZIS KILLED THEM ALL. The father, an amateur photographer and Catholic activist. The mother, seven months pregnant. The boys, aged 2 to 5. The girls, 18 months to 7 years old. Their crime? Hiding eight Jews in German-occupied Poland in 1944. The
    World War II2 min read
    British Group Releases Wartime Photos
    THEY CAPTURED IMAGES of the English countryside in a time of war—the ruins of an Iron Age fortress ringed by an anti-tank ditch; Manchester United’s bombed-out soccer stadium; American G.I.s playing baseball far away from home. The U.S. Army Air Forc
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    Accounted For
    Improved and expanded DNA testing and other analyses have allowed the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to identify some of the 71,180 servicemembers still unaccounted for from World War II. Recent identifications include: Second Lieutenant Fr
    World War II3 min read
    Fight To The Death
    DUEL IN THE DEEP The Hunters, the Hunted, and a High Seas Fight to the Finish By David Sears. 376 pp. Naval Institute Press, 2023. $34.95 AUTHOR DAVID SEARS’S latest history, Duel in the Deep, is billed as a “swashbuckling, noholds-barred brawl of

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