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The
Engineers
who stopped
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Kampfgruppe
Peiper
MONTGOMERY’S
HARD FIGHT
FOR CAEN
JAMES GAVIN
:
Jump Starting the
U.S. Airborne
SUMMER 2024
+
LEGEND OF THE JAPANESE ZERO,
DAYLIGHT BOMBER RAID ON COLOGNE,
ATROCITY ON TARAWA, AND MORE!
RETAILER: DISPLAY UNTIL JULY 8
WWII HISTORY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Features
40
Capturing Caen
A major objective in the Allied landing at Normandy was the
capture of Caen on D-Day—but it took a month of hard fighting
to wrest the key communications center from the Nazis.
ALAN DAVIDGE
54
Page 40
The Big Red One on D-Day
The First Division Museum unveils new D-Day and D-Day +1
interpretive murals by historical artist Keith Rocco.
KEVIN SEABROOKE
Departments
6
Editorial
General Dwight Eisenhower on D-Day 80 years ago.
60
Combat Engineers at Trois-Ponts
With courage and TNT, U.S. combat engineers blunt Hitler’s
armored spear at Trois-Ponts during the Battle of the Bulge.
PATRICK J. CHAISSON
10
18
26
34
92
Profile
Insight
Weapons
Top Secret
Books
Medal of Honor and Navy Cross recipient Capt. Cassin Young.
70
The Sinking of Unterseeboot-85
Fred Korematsu fought Japanese-American resettlement.
Off the North Carolina coast, the destroyer USS
Roper
chased
down submarine
U-85
in shallow water and sent it to the bottom.
ERIK PETKOVIC
The rise and fall of the “invincible” Japanese Zero.
78
Evolution of the Army Airborne
Japanese execute 22 coastwatchers on Betio fall of 1942.
Inspired by the success of German and Russian parachute
troop operations, the U.S. Army committed to an airborne
force that gained lasting fame in World War II.
ARNOLD BLUMBERG
Patton’s Prayer
for good weather bonded troops at The Bulge.
96
84
Bold Gamble above Cologne
The Royal Air Force sent 1,000 bombers against the German
city in a major raid in the spring of 1942.
MICHAEL D. HULL
Simulation Gaming
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Tank Operations: European
Campaign
and
Hell Let Loose.
The
Engineers
who stopped
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Kampfgruppe
Peiper
MONTGOMERY’S
Cover: A G.I. batters down a door in search of
Germans during combat in early 1945. See story
page 60. Photo: National Archives.
HARD FIGHT
FOR CAEN
JAMES GAVIN
:
Jump Starting the
U.S. Airborne
SUMMER 2024
+
LEGEND OF THE JAPANESE ZERO,
DAYLIGHT BOMBER RAID ON COLOGNE,
ATROCITY ON TARAWA, AND MORE!
RETAILER: DISPLAY UNTIL JULY 8
WWII History
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