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CROSSING THE RHINE!
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SS Panzers
at the Battle
of the Bulge
4TH INFANTRY DIVISION
D-DAY
Landing on
Utah Beach
Marines'
Bloody Ordeal
at Iwo Jima
Hitler’s
Killing Squads
FALL 2019
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WWII QUARTERLY
Features
18
“Easy” Victory at Utah Beach
Of the five Allied invasion beaches during Operation Overlord,
Omaha was the bloodiest and Utah the luckiest.
MASON B. WEBB
30
Furious Fight in a Frozen Hell
In the winter of 1943-44, the Red Army dealt the Germans a crushing
defeat at Cherkassy in the Dnieper Bulge.
PAT M
C
TAGGART
42
To Sink a Battleship
In November 1944, the submarine
Sealion
did what no other American
sub in World War II did: sink an enemy battleship.
CHACE V. HOWLAND
52
Peiper’s Bloody Blitz Through Belgium
During the Battle of the Bulge, German SS Lt. Col. Joachim Peiper
led the most powerful armored unit in the campaign’s deepest
penetration—but all for naught.
KEVIN M. HYMEL
Departments
06
Editorial
Standing on hallowed ground, 75 years later.
FLINT WHITLOCK
62
Hitler’s Masters of Murder
The Einsatzgruppen—Nazi death squads—cut a horrifying, bloody
swath through Jewish communities on the Eastern Front during
Operation Barbarossa.
MARK SIMNER
08
14
76
This Shall Not Be in Vain
The largest force of Marines ever assembled in the Pacific converged
upon the tiny but strategically important island of Iwo Jima.
AL HEMINGWAY
Fighting Units
Soviet female snipers accounted for the deaths of
hundreds of Germans on the battlefield.
PHIL ZIMMER
Weaponry
90
Across the Rhine
Although combat troops usually get all the attention, the U.S.
Army’s crossings of the Rhine River in March 1945 would not have
been possible without the heroic efforts of the unheralded U.S.
Navy and Coast Guard boatmen.
BRIG. GEN. (USA, RET.) RAYMOND E. BELL, JR.
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Plagued by confusion, cutbacks, and contradictory
orders, Nazi Germany’s heavy bomber program barely
got off the ground.
CROSSING THE RHINE!
ALLYN VANNOY
SS Panzers
at the Battle
of the Bulge
4TH INFANTRY DIVISION
COVER: U.S. Third Army troops hunker
down in their landing craft as they come
under enemy fire while crossing the
Rhine River, March 22, 1944.
Photo: National Archives
D-DAY
Landing on
Utah Beach
Marines'
Bloody Ordeal
at Iwo Jima
Hitler’s
Killing Squads
FALL 2019
RETAILER DISPLAY UNTIL DEC. 9
$11.99US $12.99CAN
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