May 2005

Features

Cauldron of Death
By Pat McTaggart
The Demyansk salient proved a horrific Eastern Front battleground, due in part to the meddling of two dictators.

Russo-Japanese Clash at Nomonhan
By Glenn Barnett
An obscure footnote to World War II, the Battle of Nomonhan in Siberia was a precursor to the major fighting around the globe.

The Island Fortress
By John Brown
The British bastion of Malta refused to surrender before an Axis aerial onslaught.

Shocked Beyond Imagination
By Al Hemingway
On the eve of the invasion of Peleliu, the Marines were told it would be “very tough but very short.” Unfortunately, it would prove to be one of the bloodiest and most neglected battles of the Pacific War.

Victory at Last
By Flint Whitlock
It was the end of April, 1945. And, very soon, it would be the end for the German dictator Adolf Hitler, his despotic Nazi regime, and the war in Europe.

Columns

Books
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)
The 1941-1942 German juggernaut in the Crimea captures the “invincible” Sevastopol fortress.

Insight
By Charles Whiting
Following a surprise attack by German E-boats, a D-day training exercise ended with the deaths of approximately 700 U.S. soldiers.

Ordnance
By Mike McLaughlin
The practical and portable British Bailey Bridge helped Allied troops remain on the march.

Profiles
By Michael D. Hull
When she died in 1979, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called Hanna Reitsch “the most successful woman flier of all time.”