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D-DAY 75th ANNIVERSARY
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SOLDIER’S STORY
Infantryman
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Death Struggle
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Contents
WWII
HISTORY
Columns
06 Editorial
General James Van Fleet overcame a terrible
misunderstanding and rose to the highest
echelon of command in the U.S. Army.
08 Profiles
A young American pilot experienced a
particularly tough day in combat against
the Japanese while flying his fighter over
New Guinea.
16 Ordnance
The versatile Consolidated B-24 Liberator
heavy bomber served in numerous roles in
all theaters of World War II.
24 Top Secret
Sources suggest that many individuals
plotted to topple Il Duce from his leadership
in Fascist Italy.
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66 Books
An American crew manned their country’s
newest war machine amid the hell of 1945.
Features
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38
44
Capturing Les Moulins Draw
On D-Day, elements of 12 battalions from the 29th Infantry Division gave their all
to seize one of Omaha Beach’s vital draws.
By Kevin M. Hymel
70 Simulation Gaming
Hearts of Iron
expands its naval capabilities,
and
Warsaw
introduces hand-painted turn-
based strategy.
Pioneers of Skip Bombing
American bombers in the Pacific, particularly those of the Fifth Air Force, perfected
the technique of accurately skip bombing Japanese shipping.
By Gene Eric Salecker
D-DAY 75th ANNIVERSARY
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Storming
Omaha
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Patton
Offensive
Captured at the Bulge
Private Leon Goldberg fought off German attacks for three days before becoming a
prisoner of war.
By Kevin M. Hymel
and the
Torch
SOLDIER’S STORY
Cover: American troops
on board landing craft
headed to North African
beaches near Oran,
Algeria, November 8,
1942.
See story page 50.
Photo: National Archives
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Death Struggle
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Torch
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Lighting the
1942, the
of Liberation
North Africa initiated a long offen-
On November 8,
Allied invasion of
sive road to victory against the Axis.
By Michael D. Hull
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Night Battleship Action Off Guadalcanal
On November 14-15, 1942, SG radar played a decisive role in the second phase
of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
By David Alan Johnson
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