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ARMOR VS. ARMOR
SS Panzer
Battles
in Normandy
The Savage
Battle for
Iwo Jima
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ARMORED DIVISION
Armored
Infantry
Fight in Italy
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THE GREAT ESCAPE’S REAL ‘COOLER KING’,
THE U.S. NAVY’S FIRST AIRCRAFT CARRIER,
WAR ON THE HIGH SEAS, AND MUCH MORE!
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Contents
WWII
HISTORY
Columns
06 Editorial
U.S. Marine Corps Demolition Sergeant Her-
shel W. “Woody” Williams, the last World
War II recipient of the Medal of Honor, dies.
08 Profile
Bill Ash, “The Cooler King,” was the real
POW whose exploits served as the basis
for the portrayal by actor Steve McQueen
in
The Great Escape
.
14 Ordnance
The first operational aircraft carrier in the
U.S. Navy, the USS
Langley
met her end
fighting the Japanese in World War II.
22 Top Secret
Nazi agents achieved an intelligence coup
with the capture of an Allied operative on
the Dutch-German border.
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64 Books
German troops struggled against fierce
American resistance in the Ardennes Forest
in the winter of 1944.
Features
28 Achtung! SS Panzers in Normandy
The panzer and panzergrenadier divisions of the Waffen SS fought
desperately against the Allies in Normandy in the summer of 1944.
By Michael E. Haskew
68 Simulation Gaming
Take to the seas and stave off countless
maritime disasters in
Aircraft Carrier
Survival
from CreativeForge Games.
Cover: These
paratroopers of the
509th Parachute
Infantry Regiment (PIR)
executed the first U.S.
airborne drop in
wartime as a compo-
nent of Operation
Torch. See story page
50. Photo: National
Archives.
Three U.S. Marine divisions fought more than a month to secure Mount
Suribachi and other Japanese strongpoints on the island.
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34 Bitter Bloodletting at Iwo Jima
By Adam Headley
U.S. Airborne’s First Mission
ARMOR VS. ARMOR
SS Panzer
Battles
in Normandy
The Savage
Battle for
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42 ‘I’m Going Up that Mountain!’
U.S. armored infantry and combat engineers take a key hilltop in Italy.
By Patrick J. Chaisson
Armored
Infantry
Fight in Italy
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50 American Airborne in Operation Torch
The first U.S. airborne combat operations were conducted during the
invasion of North Africa in November 1942.
By Michael Haskew
56 The Longest Struggle
The Battle of the Atlantic was fought from the beginning to the very end of
World War II.
By Michael D. Hull
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