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B-24 NAVIGATOR
Shot Down
OVER GERMANY
EYEWITNESS
D-DAY
to
V-E DAY
Army Rangers
Holding Out at Zerf
Nightmare Battle
PLUS:
HMS JERVIS
BAY, U.S.
NAVY’S
FIRST ACE,
THE FLYING
“TANK,” AND
MORE!
for Buna
BRITISH COMMANDOS
Deadly Fight for
Walcheren Island
WINTER 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WWII QUARTERLY
Features
14
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)
24
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
38
The Black and White Ship
The destroyer escort USS
Mason
became an experiment in
racial equality in World War II.
STEPHEN D. LUTZ
48
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
62
Bombs, Booze, and Broads
Departments
06
Editorial
The refugee crisis.
FLINT WHITLOCK
A former B-24 navigator recalls his training, bombing the Reich, getting
shot down, and surviving months in a German POW camp.
GLENN BARNETT
70
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
08
12
Weaponry
80
The Original Top Gun
World War II ace Edward H. “Butch” O’Hare was the “uncomfortable
hero” of the Pacific.
PATRICK REYNOLDS
The P-39 Airacobra was America’s unsung aerial hero.
PHIL ZIMMER
Museums
The American Air Museum in Duxford, England, houses
the finest collection of American aircraft outside the
United States.
ROY STEVENSON
B-24 NAVIGATOR
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90
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
Shot Down
OVER GERMANY
EYEWITNESS
COVER: A .50-caliber “tunnel-
mounted” machine gun is fired
from the bomb bay of a B-24 in
1942, prior to the introduction of
the ball turret. See story on page
62. Photo: National Archives
D-DAY
to
V-E DAY
Army Rangers
Holding Out at Zerf
Nightmare Battle
PLUS:
HMS JERVIS
BAY, U.S.
NAVY’S
FIRST ACE,
THE FLYING
“TANK,” AND
MORE!
WINTER 2016
for Buna
BRITISH COMMANDOS
Deadly Fight for
Walcheren Island
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