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Savage Combat on

Saipan

MARKET-GARDEN

Airborne

Fight at Best

Amtrac Landings at

TARAWA

Red Army Assault

on Königsberg

MIDAIR COLLISION

B-17 vs. Me-109

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WWII HISTORY

Contents

Columns

06 Editorial

Stolen Nazi art recovered in Munich creates a

sensation.

February 2014

08 Ordnance

The M1903 Springfield rifle remained in wide

use during and after World War II.

14 Profiles

Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, the

vaunted admiral without a fleet, was much

more than that.

20 Top Secret

Millions in silver pesos from the Philippine Trea-

sury were recovered from Caballo Bay, but

much more may remain on the sea bottom.

26 Insight

Don Crain and the 2nd Amphibious Tractor

Battalion hit Red Beach 2 at Tarawa.

68 Books

U.S. Marine special forces found action across

the globe during World War II.

Features

30 A Bridge So Close

Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division encountered surprising resistance at the

Dutch town of Best during Operation Market-Garden.

By Richard A. Beranty

36 To Conquer a Fortress

The Red Army prevailed during a two-month effort to capture the Prussian city of

Königsberg.

By Bastiaan Willems

44 Combat Horror on Saipan

The American capture of Saipan, Guam, and Tinian in the Marianas sealed the

fate of the Japanese empire.

By David H. Lippman

54 Mission to Madagascar

Fearing a Japanese occupation of Madagascar would threaten Allied shipping lanes

to Egypt and the Far East, the British War Office decided to act.

By Cleve C. Barkley

62 The Last Flight of Nelson King

Courage and selflessness saved fellow airmen during an Eighth Air Force mission to

Bremen and later on a run to Berlin.

By Keith Buchanan

74 Simulation Gaming

Wargaming’s aerial combat gets some mobile

assistance and Ubisoft takes us back further

with a Great War experiment.

Cover: Marine PFC

Thomas Ellis Underwood

photographed during a

break in the fighting on

Saipan. Underwood

served with Company B,

24th Marines, and was

later killed on Iwo Jima.

See story page 44.

Photo: © Bettmann/Corbis

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Savage Combat on

Saipan

MARKET-GARDEN

Airborne

Fight at Best

Amtrac Landings at

TARAWA

Red Army Assault

on Königsberg

MIDAIR COLLISION

B-17 vs. Me-109

HITLER AND HUNGARY’S LEADER, SPRINGFIELD M1903,

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FEBRUARY 2014

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