World War II 2015-03-04 (Vol.29 No.06).pdf

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OCTOBER
1942
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Death
of the
A Marine
gunner tells
how the
mighty carrier
went down
Hornet
CHARGE!
The U.S. Cavalry strikes
hard in the Philippines
How Afrika Korps Impostors
Fooled Hitler’s Elite
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WORLD
WAR II
FEATURES
C OV ER S T ORY
M a r c h /A pr il 2015
Out of Time
The USS
Hornet
had a date with
destiny. So did a Marine defending
the aircraft carrier
STAN LELAND
The Last Cavalry Charge
Outnumbered and outgunned, the
U.S. Army’s 26th Cavalry Regiment
battled the future—and won
DAVID SEARS
28
Looking for Trouble
Irregular forces Britain sent against
the Afrika Korps included hard-charging
Jewish volunteers
GAVIN MORTIMER
48
WE A PONS MA NUA L
America’s BAR
The Browning Automatic Rie was
an armload of automatic equalizer
JIM LAURIER
34
P O RTF OL I O
56
They Just Said No
Even in a war between good and evil,
not everyone was willing to take up arms
RACHEL S. COX
Ghosts of Kiska
Lifetimes later, the war still exerts
an eerie presence in the Aleutians
BRENDAN COYLE
40
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THESE PAGES AND COVER: NATIONAL ARCHIVES
DEPARTMENTS
Weider Reader
From the Footlocker
Curators at The National
World War II Museum solve
readers’ artifact mysteries
Reviews
Nazis and Islam, George
Marshall in focus, Japanese
suicide subs
6
Mail
7
World War II Today
U.S. used Nazi spies; Hitler’s
drug habit; Bf 109 ies again;
John Nagl’s Reading List
19
Fire for Effect
Northern Exposure
ROBERT M. CITINO
67
Battle Films
The Big Red One:
How Sam
Fuller Made His War a Movie
MARK GRIMSLEY
10
Conversation
Black GIs in Italy fought
Hitler with one hand and
Jim Crow with the other
GENE SANTORO
23
Time Travel
The
Lane Victory
Carries On
LIESL BRADNER
75
Challenge
Dumb ol’
Dirty Dozen
24
79
Pinup
16
80
Swerving to evade attackers on
October 26, 1942, the USS
Hornet
heels sharply to starboard, in a
course marked by the wake in the
foreground and at the stern.
ON THE COVER: The
Hornet
six
months earlier, en route to launching
a ight of B-25s against Japan in the
April 18, 1942, Doolittle Raid.

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