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1ST MARINE DIVISION
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Hand-to-Hand
Combat on
Guadalcanal
MARKET GARDEN
Airborne’s
Desperate
Fight
CROSSING THE RHINE
Battle at Remagen
EYEWITNESS
PANZER ATTACK IN RUSSIA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WWII QUARTERLY
Features
14
Autumn Debacle in Holland
Operation Market Garden, a bold plan to end the war quickly, led instead
to an Allied disaster in Holland, but the 82nd Airborne Division held firm.
MARTIN K.A. MORGAN
26
Death in the Arctic Night
The German battleship
Scharnhorst
was greatly feared but not, as it turned
out, invincible.
ROBERT BARR SMITH
38
Normandy: D Plus 1 Year
A year after the Allied assault, the Normandy countryside still bore the scars of
battle.
KEVIN M. HYMEL
42
Letters from the Eastern Front
A German soldier’s correspondence reveals the heroism and hardships on
one of World War II’s toughest battlefields.
HORST FUCHS RICHARDSON
Departments
06
Editorial
Getting Goosebumps
FLINT WHITLOCK
56
Childhoods Lost to War
Four women—children in the 1940s—caught up in the turmoil of war in Ger-
many and Japan recount their often terrifying experiences.
SUSAN ZIMMERMAN
08
94
Technology
68
When the Chips Were Down
On Guadalcanal and Peleliu, the men of K Company of the 1st Marine
Division’s 1st Regiment gained a repuation for extreme courage
under fire.
JASON ABADY
Operation Aphrodite: radio-controlled B-17s proved to be
deadly—and ahead of their time.
MASON B. WEBB
Museums
The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site reminds
visitors of the crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich.
MARK D. VAN ELLS
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“The Americans Have Crossed!”
In March 1945, courage and luck enabled U.S. forces to seize an intact
bridge over the Rhine at Remagen and thrust into Germany.
JON DIAMOND
1ST MARINE DIVISION
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Hand-to-Hand
Combat on
Guadalcanal
MARKET GARDEN
Airborne’s
COVER: A U.S. Marine looks over
Desperate
the remains of a Japanese soldier
Fight
CROSSING THE RHINE
killed during brutal fighting on
Battle at Remagen
Guadalcanal. See story page 68.
EYEWITNESS
PANZER ATTACK IN RUSSIA
Photo: National Archives
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