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WWII Quarterly - Winter 2016 (Hard Cover)

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WWII Quarterly - Winter 2016 (Hard Cover)
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Features

From Omaha Beach to Victory
Although injured three times, Private First Class Ralph Puhalovich served in the Big Red One from Normandy to Czechoslovakia. Ralph Puhalovich (with Mark Puhalovich) 

Brutal Battle for a Dutch Island
The port of Antwerp needed to be taken, but no one anticipated how hard the last major seaborne invasion in Europe would be. Jon Diamond 

The Black and White Ship
The destroyer escort USS Mason became an experiment in racial equality in World War II. Stephen D. Lutz 

The Buna Front: A Ghastly Nightmare
The steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea proved to be as difficult for the Allies as the Japanese enemy was. Jon Diamond

Bombs, Booze, and Broads
A former B-24 navigator recalls his training, bombing the Reich, getting shot down, and surviving months in a German POW camp. Glenn Barnett 

Rangers Led the Way at Zerf
A little-known battle at an important roadblock in Germany was the perfect assignment for the 5th Ranger Battalion. Nathan Prefer 

The Original Top Gun
World War II ace Edward H. “Butch” O’Hare was the “uncomfortable hero” of the Pacific. Patrick Reynolds 

The Heroic Death of the HMS Jervis Bay
Extraordinary courage by the captain and crew of a small Royal Navy vessel against the mighty German battleship Admiral Scheer earned the only Victoria Cross awarded for convoy escort duty. Chuck Lyons

 

Departments

Editorial
The refugee crisis. 

Weaponry
The P-39 Airacobra was America’s unsung aerial hero.

Museums
The American Air Museum in Duxford, England, houses the finest collection of American aircraft outside the United States.