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82nd Airborne vs. 16th Panzer Division
CMG 02313
MARKET GARDEN
Airborne
FIGHT
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Mook
The Saga of
JFK
and
PT-109
MEDAL OF HONOR
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Forgotten Hero
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Contents
WWII
HISTORY
Columns
06 Editorial
Tyler Perry, Netflix present the story of the all-Black,
all-female 6888th Postal Battalion in World War II.
08 Profile
Lieutenant Colonel Matt Urban recieves the Medal
of Honor 30 years after the end of World War II.
16 Ordnance
Allied scientists’ micrometer beam radar was key
element in defeating Axis aircraft.
22 Top Secret
Neutral for much of World War II, Bulgaria faced
the possibility of both Nazi and Soviet domination.
28 Insight
The Grumman F4F fighter known as the “Gavutu
Wildcat” may have been piloted by Marine Corps
ace James E. Swett.
June 2023
70 Books
Features
32 John F. Kennedy and
PT-109
The 80th anniversary of the wartime adventure of the future U.S. President prompts a
remembrance of the encounter with a Japanese destroyer in Blackett Strait in 1943.
By John J. Domagalski
The U.S. Army saw some of its largest and most
difficult fighting in the last year of the Pacific War.
74 Simulation Gaming
Step into the shoes of past leaders in
Total Tank
Generals
and prepare to brave the
Trenches.
82nd Airborne vs. 16th Panzer Division
CMG 02313
40 Tough Fight at Mook
American paratroopers struggle to hold the line in Mook, Holland,during a crucial
phase of the ill-fated Operation Market-Garden.
By Patrick J. Chaisson
MARKET GARDEN
Airborne
FIGHT
at
Mook
48 Percival’s Surrender: Britain’s Greatest Failure
General Arthur Percival’s surrender of the bastion of Singapore to the Japanese was
a low point of World War II for the British Empire.
By David H. Lippman
The Saga of
JFK
and
PT-109
MEDAL OF HONOR
Cover: A Panzer IV of the
16th Panzer Division
moves along a road in
southern Italy in Septem-
ber 1943. See story page
56. Photo: Bundesarchiv
Bild 101I-305-0652-24;
Photo: Funke.
9th Division’s
Forgotten Hero
JUNE 2023
+
REVOLUTIONARY ALLIED RADAR,
PERCIVAL AND THE FALL OF SINGAPORE,
WILDCAT FIGHTER FOUND, AND MORE!
RETAILER: DISPLAY UNTIL MAY 22
56 Desperate Venture at Avellino
A hasty mission to drop the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion on German-occupied
Avellino during the battle for Salerno left 600 men scattered and stranded behind
enemy lines for two weeks as the Allies fought for a toehold on the Italian mainland.
By Nathan N. Prefer
64 B-17s at Pearl Harbor
A flight of B-17 bombers from the West Coast got mixed up in the Japanese raid on
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
By Mark Carlson
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