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Contents
WWII
HISTORY
Columns
06 Editorial
Seventy-five years ago, scientists led by
Enrico Fermi achieved the first sustained
nuclear chain reaction.
10 Ordnance
The penny pocket can opener was a well-
known and useful piece of GI gear during
World War II.
16 Profiles
Ernie Pyle was perhaps the best known
correspondent of World War II.
26 Top Secret
A group of Parisian scholars and museum
workers were among the first to challenge
the Nazis with propaganda and covert
operations in occupied France.
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76 Books
After several disastrous defeats in 1942-
1943, the Indian Army remade itself into a
war-winning force that stopped the Japanese
cold at Imphal-Kohima.
Features
34
42
50
56
61
Seven Meetings to D-Day
The entire Normandy invasion hinged on General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decision,
but would the weather cooperate?
By Kevin M. Hymel
84 Simulation Gaming
Sudden Strike 4
brings serious strategy to
consoles, and we join the squad with a
look at
Raid: World War II.
Cover: General Dwight
Eisenhower speaks
with a member of the
101st Airborne Division
shortly before giving
the command to launch
the D-Day invasion,
June 5, 1944.
See story page 34.
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The Tide Turns
The British Eighth Army won one of the pivotal victories of World War II at the
whistlestop of El Alamein in October 1942.
By Michael D. Hull
Curtis 02313
D-DAY
to
Go!
EL ALAMEIN
Decision
Rommel
Defeated
6TH ARMORED DIVISION
Prisoner in the Bulge
The World War II odyssey of Bob Max made a lasting impression and fueled educa-
tional and philanthropic pursuits later in life.
By David H. Lippman
Captured at
the Bulge
Nazi Onslaught
in the Crimea
+
U-BOAT ACE OTTO KRETSCHMER,
AT THE FRONT WITH ERNIE PYLE,
BOOK & GAME REVIEWS, AND MORE!
Photo: National Archives
Wolf of the Atlantic
Commander Otto Kretschmer sank more than 40 Allied ships but spent much of
World War II as a prisoner in Canada.
By Christopher J. Chlon
Soviet Disaster in the Crimea
A Red Army offensive became a nightmare of death and defeat as German forces
turned the tables during the battle for Sevastopol.
By Pat McTaggart
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