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THIRD ARMORED DIVISION
Sherman
Tank Ace
C-47 CREWMAN ON D-DAY
Flying the
Airborne
BATTLE FOR BOUGAINVILLE
WWII HISTORY
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Volume 19, No. 5
Holding the
High Ground
INTO THE REICHSWALD
Brutal Fight on the
German Frontier
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Contents
WWII
HISTORY
Columns
6
Editorial
USS
West Virginia
survived Pearl Harbor to
reach Tokyo Bay.
8
Profile
Sergeant Lafayette Pool wrought havoc on
Nazi armor from the commander’s hatch of
a Sherman tank.
14
Ordnance
In the hands of Soviet pilots, the Douglas
A-20 Havoc bomber proved deadly to
German shipping during World War II.
20
Insight
Ceremonies aboard the battleship USS
Missouri
ended an exhaustive campaign
of death and destruction as World War II
came to a close.
66
Books
August/September 2020
A veteran of the savage, climactic land
battle of the Pacific War tells his
harrowing story.
70
Simulation Gaming
Features
26 From D-Day to VE-Day in a C-47
Technical Sergeant Gerald Griffith survived two crash landings while delivering
paratroopers in World War II’s largest airborne operations.
By Kevin Hymel
New tank strategy and wargaming offerings
are reviewed.
THIRD ARMORED DIVISION
32 Into the Bitter Forest
British and Canadian forces fought a bloody offensive in the forest of the Reich-
swald on the German frontier.
By David H. Lippman
Sherman
Tank Ace
C-47 CREWMAN ON D-DAY
Flying the
Airborne
BATTLE FOR BOUGAINVILLE
Holding the
High Ground
INTO THE REICHSWALD
Cover: GIs from the
Third Armored
Division ride on top
of a Sherman tank
as it approaches
Stolberg, Germany
in October, 1944.
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42 Savage Fight for Hill 700
Action at Cape Torokina on the island of Bougainville tremendously strained the
American troops of the XIV Corps.
By Michael D. Hull
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Photo: National
Archives
50 Manstein’s Victorious Panzers
In February 1943, German Field Marshal Erich von Manstein unleashed his elite
panzer units in a devastating counterattack against Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.
By William E. Welsh
58 An Ace in a Day
During furious fights over the Pacific, naval aviator Ted Crosby shot down five
Japanese planes in one day.
By Eric Niderost
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