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Contents
WWII
HISTORY
Columns
06 Editorial
A resurgent Russian Army?
08 Profiles
Jay Rencher displayed incredible heroism
clearing obstacles from Utah Beach.
14 Ordnance
Engine maker Hall-Scott found new life with
the wartime need for its products.
18 Insight
A Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal wrote a
poignant letter days before his life ended.
24 Top Secret
Aside from the well-known Holocaust against
the Jews, Gypsies, and Poles, the Nazis
also persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses and
homosexuals.
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66 Books
A small group of naval aviators was sent to
fight on Guadalcanal.
Features
28
36
42
The Battle for Aachen
Emperor Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire—the First Reich—with its capital at
Aachen, lasted 1,000 years. Hitler insisted on a fanatical defense of the city.
By Arnold Blumberg
70 Simulation Gaming
Poland-based Deep Water Studio crowd-funds
a survival-based submarine simulation, while
World War Toons
goes free-to-play.
Seek ... Attack ...Destroy
One American destroyer escort group’s 12-day fight changed the course of World
War II in the Pacific.
By Patrick J. Chaisson
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Rommel’s
Victory at
Kasserine
ADVANCE INTO GERMANY
Konev Strikes
In early 1945, Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev executed a stunning offensive against the
Germans in the Vistula-Oder area.
By Pat McTaggart
G.I. Fight
for Aachen
Red Army’s
Brutal Assault
FIRST PERSON
ADVANCE ON POLAND
Cover: A German tank
on the advance in North
Africa, photographed
during fighting in Tunisia
in February 1943.
See story page 58.
Photo: dpa picture
alliance / Alamy
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Exhausted Caravan
as the German Army approached choked the roads
The 1940 exodus from Paris
from the city with refugee traffic.
By Tim Miller
by
Kasserine Pass
58
Trial
from
Fire at
at El Alamein, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Reeling
his defeat
intended to toss the dice again before leaving North Africa for good. His target was
the green American Army in Tunisia.
By Eric Niderost
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