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Marine Battle for Guadalcanal
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BATTLE OF
THE BULGE
Brutal
River
Crossing
4TH ARMORED DIVISION
WWII HISTORY
APRIL 2022
Volume 21, No. 2
Halting the
Germans at
Luneville
U-boat War
in the Atlantic
+
LOCKHEED’S P-38 LIGHTNING FIGHTER,
THE EXPLOITS OF BRITAIN’S LEGENDARY SAS,
LAUNCHING THE 8TH AIR FORCE, AND MORE!
APRIL 2022
RETAILER: DISPLAY UNTIL MARCH 28
Contents
WWII
HISTORY
Columns
06 Editorial
During the Second Happy Time, the destroyer
USS
Roper
struck a blow against marauding
U-boats.
08 Ordnance
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter gained a
fearsome reputation in both the European
and Pacific theaters.
14 Top Secret
The heroic covert operatives of the Special
Air Service bedeviled the Axis during the war
in North Africa.
20 Profile
General Ira C. Eaker was an architect of
the U.S. Army Air Forces and the legendary
Eighth Air Force that pounded the Third
Reich.
April 2022
70 Books
African American GIs earned seven Medals of
Honor during World War II but did not get
them until 1997.
Features
28 Flattening the Bulge
General George S. Patton’s “Red Diamond” Division leaped the Sauer River in a
bold, arduous assault in January 1945.
By Patrick J. Chaisson
72 Simulation Gaming
Relic’s latest show promise in pre-alpha trials,
and Men of War prepares to return to the
battlefield this year
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36 Bare-Knuckle Brawl at Guadalcanal
The U.S. Marine Corps came of age as a land fighting force during the difficult
days on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
By Michael E. Haskew
WWII HISTORY
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Volume 21, No. 2
BATTLE OF
THE BULGE
46 Cavalrymen Stand at Luneville
Hard-fighting American 2nd (Mechanized) Cavalry Group blunted a German
counterattack that threatened the right flank of Third Army in September 1944.
By Allyn V
annoy
Brutal
River
Crossing
4TH ARMORED DIVISION
Halting the
Germans at
Luneville
U-boat War
in the Atlantic
+
LOCKHEED’S P-38 LIGHTNING FIGHTER,
THE EXPLOITS OF BRITAIN’S LEGENDARY SAS,
LAUNCHING THE 8TH AIR FORCE, AND MORE!
APRIL 2022
Cover: A U.S. Marine
waits for his buddy to
throw a hand grenade
before advancing on
Japanese troops during
combat in the Pacific.
See story page 36.
Photo: Alamy
RETAILER: DISPLAY UNTIL MARCH 28
54 Out of Defeat, a Hard-Won Triumph
General William Slim turned the arduous campaign against the Japanese in the
CBI from frustration to victory.
By Michael D. Hull
62 Gray Wolves and the Ides of March
A tremendous U-boat success against two Allied convoys in early 1943 gave
way to major setbacks only weeks later as Allied anti-submarine capabilities
improved.
By Kelly Bell
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