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Rommel’s Tank vs. Tank Slugfest
CMG 02313
Siegfried Line
Assaulting
German
Pillboxes
B-25 Bomber Pilot
Shot Down
Battle of Midway
OVER ITALY
Torpedo 8’s
Heroic
Sacrifice
WINTER 2024
Brutal Fight for Manila
+
JAPAN’S KAMIKAZE SUBMARINES,
ACTOR LEE MARVIN: PROUD MARINE,
PEARL HARBOR HYSTERIA, AND MORE!
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WWII HISTORY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Features
36
The Blue Ridge Division in Europe
Arriving in Normandy in August 1944, the 80th Infantry
Division fought at the Moselle and the Battle of the Bulge—
and witnessed the horrors of Buchenwald.
ANDY ADKINS & MADELINE HANSON
48
Remembering Torpedo 8 of Midway
USS
Hornet’s
Torpedo Squadron 8 was decimated during the
Battle of Midway, but there were other survivors besides the
celebrated Ensign George Gay.
MARK CARLSON
Page 56
56
Counterattack at Arras
The Anglo-French armored thrust at Arras failed to halt the
Germans in 1940, but it surely shook them.
DAVID H. LIPPMAN
Departments
6
Editorial
Controversy over Nazi artifacts from the
Graf Spee.
66
Destroying the Pearl: Liberation
of Manila
As U.S. troops moved to liberate the beautiful city of Manila
in 1945, the Japanese embarked on a campaign of death and
destruction.
DAVID H. LIPPMAN
10
20
28
92
96
Profile
Ordnance
Insight
Books
Simulation Gaming
Rommel’s Tank vs. Tank Slugfest
CMG 02313
Oscar-winner Lee Marvin was a U.S. Marine in WWII.
Kaiten—Imperial
Japan’s human-piloted torpedo.
76
Last Days of PT-34
The attack on Pearl Harbor spread panic across the U.S.
The Navy’s newest and smallest warship, patrol torpedo boats
like
PT-34
proved their worth in the Philippines early in World
War II.
JOHN DOMAGALSKI
To Besiege a City—The
900-day battle for Leningrad.
84
Bomber Pilot to Prisoner of War
Pilot Ben Ernst bailed out of his stricken B-25 Mitchell bomber
off the coast of Palermo and spent two years as a POW.
AMY WANNEMACHER
Strategic Mind—the Winter War
and the Continuation War.
Siegfried Line
Assaulting
German
Pillboxes
B-25 Bomber Pilot
Shot Down
Cover: Private George Curran with the
80th Infantry Division takes a break during
the division’s assault on Argentan, France,
August 20, 1944. Private Curran is armed
with a 1903A4 Springfield rifle with
mounted scope.
See story page 36. Photo: National Archives.
OVER ITALY
Battle of Midway
Torpedo 8’s
Heroic
Sacrifice
WINTER 2024
Brutal Fight for Manila
+
JAPAN’S KAMIKAZE SUBMARINES,
ACTOR LEE MARVIN: PROUD MARINE,
PEARL HARBOR HYSTERIA, AND MORE!
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