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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WWII QUARTERLY
Features
14
The Heroes of Hill 192
The winner of a large battle for a small hill in Normandy, fought
between the 2nd U.S. Infantry Division and German paratroopers,
would determine the fate of St. Lô.
WILLIAM G. DENNIS
28
Defending the Lexington
In early 1942, a furious air-sea battle in the Solomons set the stage
for Pacific Theater combat yet to come.
ALLYN VANNOY
36
Is London Burning?
At the end of 1940, heavy German air raids led to the Great London
Fire Blitz that nearly destroyed the city.
DAVID ALAN JOHNSON
48
Victory in the Mediterranean
The battle for the tiny Mediterranean island of Pantelleria was a
relatively easy Allied victory—and the precursor to the concept of
“victory through air power.”
COLONEL (USAF, RET.) JEFF PATTON
Departments
06
Editorial
How do you solve a problem like ... Hitler’s birthplace?
FLINT WHITLOCK
60
From Battlefield to Football Field
A former German paratrooper recalls his days fighting in Crete, the
USSR, and North Africa, then years as a POW in Britain and the United
States, where he played American football.
RICHARD STATEZNY WITH WARD CARR AND DETLEF ZIER
08
96
Profile of Valor
72
The Real Fury: A Tanker’s View of War
From North Africa to Sicily to Normandy to the heart of Germany,
bow gunner Irving Bromberg fought the war in a Sherman tank.
KEVIN M. HYMEL
Sergeant Red Erwin’s courage in a burning B-29 over
Japan saved the lives of his crewmen and earned him the
Medal of Honor.
ROBERT F. DORR
Museums
The 45th Infantry Division Museum is dedicated to the
“Citizen Soldier.”
MIKE GONZALES
2ND INFANTRY DIVISION
84
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Bombing Buchenwald
The August 1944 American air raid on a weapons factory at the Nazis’
horrific concentration camp was one of the most precise bombing
missions of the war.
FLINT WHITLOCK
Bloody
Battle in
COVER: A German fallschirmjäger
photographed in Russia.
See stories pages 14 and 60.
Photograph: Bundesarchiv
Bild 101I-265-0023-24,
Photo: Vorpahl
Normandy
Sherman
Tanker’s
War Across Europe
FALLSCHIRMJÄGER’S JOURNEY
From Battlefield
to POW Camp
Luftwaffe
Fire Bombing
of London
FALL 2016
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