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VICTORY IN EUROPE
Battle for
BERLIN
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
At Hosingen
OPERATION VARSITY
Heroic Stand
Airborne Jump
Across the Rhine
83RD DIVISION
BLOODY MARCH
ACROSS EUROPE
SPRING 2015
Failed British Defense
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WWII QUARTERLY
Features
12
The Trampled Swastika
ERIC NIDEROST
In April 1945, as the Allies crushed Nazi Germany from all sides,
the Reich that Hitler boasted would last for a thousand years was about
to expire after just 12.
24
Tragic Surrender
MARK SIMMONS
The day after Pearl Harbor, a large Japanese force descended on the
vital British military installations at Singapore and gave Britain its most
humiliating defeat.
38
Heroic Stand at Hosingen
ALICE M. FLYNN AND ALLYN VANNOY
Caught in the Battle of the Bulge onslaught, First Lieutenant Thomas Flynn
and his company held out for days in a small Luxembourg town before being
taken prisoner.
52
How “The Few” Saved Britain
MARK SIMMONS
It may have been the Royal Navy, rather than the Royal Air Force, that
persuaded Hitler to abandon his plans to invade Britain.
60
With the “Ragtag Circus” Across Europe
Departments
06
Editorial
Remembering the end of the war in Europe.
FLINT WHITLOCK
SUSAN ZIMMERMAN
From the hedgerows of France to the Hürtgen Forest to war’s end at the
Elbe, the U.S. 83rd Infantry Division blazed a largely unheralded trail of
courage across Europe.
72
Silk Over Germany
08
Personalities
Three VMI graduates—Generals Marshall, Gerow,
and Handy—made a powerful impression on
America’s conduct of war.
PHIL GIOIA
After Normandy, the U.S. 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment spearheaded
Operation Varsity, the March 1945 airborne jump across the Rhine into
Germany.
DOMINIQUE FRANÇOIS
84
Kiwis Over the Pacific
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The Royal New Zealand Air Force played a pivotal role in the war against
Japan.
ALLYN VANNOY
VICTORY IN EUROPE
Battle for
BERLIN
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
COVER: A German infantryman
photographed somewhere on the
Eastern Front in 1943. Two years
later the Russians were attacking
Berlin and Hitler lay dead in his
undergraound bunker. See story
page 12. Photo: © Scherl/SZ
Photo/The Image Works
Heroic Stand
OPERATION VARSITY
At Hosingen
Airborne Jump
Across the Rhine
BLODDY MARCH
ACROSS EUROPE
Failed British Defense
SPRING 2015
$9.99
83RD DIVISION
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WWII Quarterly
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