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OPERATION COBRA
Normandy
Breakout
HITLER'S
Jewish Soldiers
Fierce Fight for
Angaur Island
America's
Magnificent
Nisei Warriors
BLOODY BATTLE for BURMA
CHARLES DE GAULLE:
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France's Greatest Hero
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WWII QUARTERLY
Features
18
Deadly Cobra Strike
After weeks of trying to break out of Normandy’s hedgerow country,
Omar Bradley’s Operation Cobra propelled U.S. forces onto open ground
and across France.
MICHAEL E. HASKEW
30
An American College Goes to War
Beloit College was one of 150 schools that hosted the Army Air Force’s
Cadet Training Program from March 1943 to March 1944.
PATRICIA OVERMAN
36
The Admin Box 1944
The Japanese use tested tactics, but the British have learned from experience.
WILLIAM B. ALLMON
46
America’s Most Decorated Heroes
Despite being subjected to harsh discrimination, Japanese Americans
joined the U.S. military to prove their loyalty.
RICHARD HIGGINS
60
Ninth Air Force Captured in Brushstrokes
Page 36
Artist Milton Marx chronicled the Ninth U.S. Air Force preparing for the
Normandy invasion and beyond.
KEVIN M. HYMEL
Departments
06
Editorial
Digging up history.
FLINT WHITLOCK
66
Wildcats Ashore!
The desperate fight for Angaur Island, a tiny piece of Pacific real estate,
went almost unnoticed—except for the soldiers on both sides who were
caught up in its brutality.
NATHAN N. PREFER
78
Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers
While millions of German Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis,
many of their relatives, willingly or not, were fighting for the Third Reich.
BRYAN MARK RIGG
08
12
Ordnance
The M-3 “Grease Gun” showcases Yankee ingenuity at
its ugly best.
DAVID J. LITTLE
88
In Desperation and Triumph
General Charles de Gaulle rose to lead the Free French during World
War II and restore his nation’s honor in the postwar world.
MICHAEL E. HASKEW
Propaganda
Famed Hollywood driector Frank Capra turned Nazi
propaganda films into a powerful weapon of war against
America’s enemies.
HERB KUGEL
OPERATION COBRA
96
The Lost DUKW of Lake Garda
The Voluntari del Garda conducted an exhaustive search for the last
casualties of the 10th Mountain Division.
JEFF PATTON, COLONEL, USAF (RET.)
Normandy
Breakout
HITLER'S
Jewish Soldiers
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Fierce Fight for
Angaur Island
COVER: American infantryman
T/SGT Johnny Jonak looks
cautiously over a hedgrow in
Normandy. See story page 18.
Photo: National Archives
America's
Magnificent
Nisei Warriors
BLOODY BATTLE FOR BURMA
CHARLES DE GAULLE:
WINTER 2014
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