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BATTLE OF THE BULGE
CMG 02313
French
Commandos
on D-Day
THE BLOODY GILBERTS
ASSAULT
ON MAKIN
HELLFIRE IN THE AIR
Diary of a
B-17 Tail
Gunner
+
ACROSS EUROPE WITH 12TH ARMY,
KID WHO KILLED ROMMEL (OR DID HE?),
THE GREEK HOLOCAUST, AND MORE!
SPRING 2024
RETAILER: DISPLAY UNTIL MARCH 22
TA B L E O F C O NT E NT S
Features
30
Field Hospital Seized at Bastogne
Germans overwhelm the 326th Airborne Medical Company’s
aid station in Bastogne, capturing 101st Airborne wounded.
PATRICK J. CHAISSON
38
Page 80
The Greek Holocaust
After invading Greece in 1941, Hitler’s forces embarked on a
reign of terror every bit as brutal as their other conquests.
NATHAN N. PREFER
Departments
6
Editorial
Intrigue surrounds Luftwaffe attack that killed all onboard a
civilian DC-3—including actor Leslie Howard—in 1943.
48
“Another Road to Tokyo”
The savage battle for Makin Island was not the smooth
victory it might have been.
NATHAN N. PREFER
10
14
20
22
92
94
Insight
Ordnance
Profile
Top Secret
58
“Vat Goes on
Here?”
Pilot erroneously credited with killing Field Marshal Rommel.
PFC Frank Cohn interrogated German prisoners from
Belgium to Germany during the war in Europe.
KEVIN M. HYMEL
The USS
Zane
has a second life in the Pacific Theater.
68
Diary of a B-17 Tail Gunner
A Fifteenth U.S. Air Force B-17 tail gunner details his time
in training—and the terror of combat.
ALLYN VANNOY
U.S.C.G. vet was aboard an LST during Operation Overlord.
Einstein vehemently opposed the Nazis and was a target for
assassination prior to coming to the United States.
Books
Simulation Gaming
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
CMG 02313
80
French Commandos Land on D-Day
With the advent of the campaign to liberate their country
from Nazi occupation, Free French commandos rose in sup-
port of the D-Day landings at Normandy.
JOHN E. SPINDLER
Patton’s War: An American General’s Combat Leadership
Vol. 2
Wargamers aim to creat the next
WWII Carrier classic themselves.
French
Commandos
on D-Day
Cover: Two soldiers from SS-Kampfgruppe
Hanson are photographed soon after the unit
attacked an American convoy on December 18,
1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. A similar
attack later that same day was made by another
Kampfgruppe on another American unit.
See story page 30. Photo: Alamy.
THE BLOODY GILBERTS
ASSAULT
ON MAKIN
HELLFIRE IN THE AIR
Diary of a
B-17 Tail
Gunner
+
ACROSS EUROPE WITH 12TH ARMY,
KID WHO KILLED ROMMEL (OR DID HE?),
THE GREEK HOLOCAUST, AND MORE!
SPRING 2024
RETAILER: DISPLAY UNTIL MARCH 22
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