WWII Quarterly - Spring 2016
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Название: WWII Quarterly - Spring 2016
Жанр: Нет
Автор: Коллектив
Год выпуска: 2016
Формат: PDF
Размер: 19
ISBN: 244858534587
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ WWII Quarterly - Spring 2016 БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: Журнал посвящённый истории Второй Мировой войны.
Departments
06 Editorial
Stumbling over history.
FLINT WHITLOCK
08 Armament
Nazi Germany’s ally Hungary worked hard to
develop a tank that could stand up to Soviet armor, but
to no avail.
JOHN E. SPINDLER
Features
12 Brittany: Too High a Price?
As Allied troops dashed eastward after breaking out from the
Normandy beachhead, the VIII U.S. Corps was bogged down in a bloody
attempt to take the Brittany ports. NATHAN N. PREFER
26 Death by Torpedo
The 1939 sinking of the HMS Royal Oak at Scapa Flow by U-47 caused
grave concern within the British Admiralty and changes in the anchorage.
CHUCK LYONS
33 Rising Sun, Descending Darkness
When the Japanese decided to invade America’s important Pacific
outpost in the Philippines, thousands of U.S. troops and their brave
Filipino allies were doomed from the start. WILLIAM STROOCK
42 Incomplete Victory at Falaise
The Allies’ pounding of the German army trapped at Falaise in the
summer of 1944 was unmerciful, but the victory could have been much
more complete. JON DIAMOND
56 Combat and Fear: A Replacement’s Story
As a “newby” machine gunner in the 104th Infantry Division, Robert
Creamer experienced both the horror and the elation of combat in the
European Theater.
ALLYN VANNOY WITH MATERIAL PROVIDED BY THE CREAMER FAMILY
66 A Death in San Pietro
In one of the Italian campaign’s toughest battles, Captain Henry Waskow
of the 36th “Texas” Division performed with quiet heroism—until he was
killed. TIM BRADY
78Baptism of Fire: The SS in Poland
Hitler’s elite Bodyguard Regiment and other SS units were transformed
during the Polish campaign into real fighting men—and became
responsible for committing atrocities. BLAINE TAYLOR
88 Liberating the Camps
Leon Tulper, a Jewish American soldier in the 65th Infantry Division,
recalls the harrowing final days of the war in Europe and the liberation
of the Ohrdruf and Mauthausen concentration camps.
CHRISTOPHER MISKIMON