WWII Quarterly - Fall 2013 (Soft Cover)

Features

The “Green Hell” of Guadalcanal
Marine Corps combat veterans relive the dangerous and deadly work in some of the war’s toughest fighting. By Adam Makos & Marcus Brotherton

Last Stand in Leipzig
Decided against advancing on Berlin, American troops captured Germany’s fifth largest city, taking a monument to a 19th-century victory over Napoleon in the process. By Michael E. Haskew

Behind Barbed Wire in America
The forced relocation of Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II was a blot on the nation’s moral authority. By Richard Higgins

Disaster at Dieppe
Many lessons in how to invade France were learned during Operation Jubilee, but at a cost to the Canadian and British invaders. By Jon Diamond

Mayhem at Midway
A young sailor aboard the doomed carrier Yorktown recounts the battle that sank the ship and almost cost him his life. By Carol Edgemon Hipperson

Yellow Star vs. Swastika
After escaping from Germany and Austria, a number of Jews joined the Allied armies to take back their former homelands from the Nazis. By Steven Karras

When Japan Invaded America
To the Japanese, the Aleutian Islands looked like the perfect stepping stones to America’s West Coast. Neither side expected the difficulties these islands would represent. By Stephen D. Lutz

Departments

WWII Personality
America’s controversial ambassador to Great Britain, and father of a future U.S. president, wanted to keep America out of the war rather than confront the Nazi menace. By Peter Kross

Museums
The Japanese American National Museum tells of wartime travails. By Mason B. Webb