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World War 2 In Review eBooks List

World War 2 In Review
No. 050: Guadalcanal Campaign

  • Guadalcanal Campaign 

  • Way of War on Guadalcanal 

  • Solomons Campaign 

  • Jungle Slaughterhouse of Guadalcanal 

  • Douglas A. Munro: Coast Guard Hero of Guadalcanal 

  • Battle of Guadalcanal Order of Battle 

  • Japanese Invasion of Tulagi May 1942 

  • Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo 

  • Battle of Savo Island 

  • Goettge Patrol 

  • Battle of the Tenaru 

  • Battle of the Eastern Solomons 

  • Cactus Air Force 

  • Tokyo Express 

  • Battle of Edson’s Ridge 

  • Actions Along the Matanikau 

  • Battle of Cape Esperance 

  • Battle for Henderson Field 

  • Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 

  • Matanikau Offensive 

  • Koli Point Action 

  • Carlson’s Patrol 

  • Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 

  • Battle of Tassafaronga 

  • Operation Ke 

  • Battle of Mount Austen, Galloping Horse, and Sea Horse 

  • Battle of Rennell Island

  • 427 B&W/color photos/illustrations/maps.

World War 2 In Review
No. 049: Fighting Vehicles

  • The Tank Between Wars 

  • American 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage T32 (M7 and M7B1) “Priest” 

  • American 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M37 

  • American Cargo Carrier M29 “Weasel” 

  • U.S. Army Medium Tank Battalion, Table of Organization and Equipment 17-25, 15 September 1943 

  • “I Am a Tank Destroyer Commander” 

  • German PzKpfw. VI “Tiger I” Heavy Tank 

  • Flame-throwing “Tiger” 

  • Flame-throwing Carriers 

  • American IHC M-5-6 6x6 2½-ton Trucks 

  • Soviet Self-Propelled Artillery Development: A Personal Commentary 

  • Soviet Self-propelled Gun SU-85

  • 423 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 048: Western Front

  • Western Front: Introduction 

  • Action at Arras, 21 May 1940 

  • Hurricanes of Thistle Squadron 

  • Defense of Calais by 30th Brigade, May 1940 

  • Armistice Day: Fate of a Famous Railway Car 

  • D-Day: Normandy, 6 June 1944 

  • A Miracle in the Skies Saved the Paratroop Lieutenant 

  • Payoff Tuesday: Fighters and Bombers Crowded the D-Day Sky 

  • American Conquest of the Cherbourg Peninsula, June 1944 

  • Matt Urban, Captain, U.S. Army: Medal of Honor Recipient 

  • Diary Solves Mystery of American Unknown Soldier 

  • Staff Sergeant Andrew Miller, U.S. Army: Medal of Honor Recipient 

  • Tank versus Tank 

  • Wacht am Rhein: Total War in the West 

  • 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate): After Action Report, 17-31 December 1944 

  • Dieppe Raid 

  • Dieppe: A Failure that Led to Success\

  • 400 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 047: Weapons

  • Anti-tank Guns Part 5 (Russia and Swedish) 

  • Artillery Practices by the Major Combatants of World War II 

  • Soviet Artillery Weapons and Ammunition on the Eve of the War 

  • Control of Soviet Artillery and Its Fire During a Breakthrough of the Defense 

  • Soviet Army Rifle Division, 1939-45 

  • British Army Artillery Uniforms 

  • American 155mm Field Gun “Long Tom” 

  • American 240mm Howitzer M1 

  • American SCR-270 Early Warning Radar 

  • Der Gebogene Lauf: Curved Barrel Attachment for the German MP 43 

  • Russian Mosin-Nagant Rifle 

  • Japanese Type 2 20mm Anti-aircraft Machine Cannon 

  • Japanese 8cm/40 3rd Year Type Naval Gun 

  • Japanese Type 3 12cm Anti-aircraft Gun 

  • Japanese Type 4 75mm Anti-aircraft Gun 

  • Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground 

  • Finding and Clearing Mines: The American Experience in World War II

  • 242 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 046

  • Anti-tank Guns Part 4 (Italian, Japanese, Romanian) 

  • Sidi Bou Zid: Case History of Failure 

  • American T40 3-in Gun Motor Carriage 

  • Camouflaging America’s Aircraft Plants 

  • Guadalcanal Navy Cross: Al Schmid, USMC 

  • Notes on Bastogne Operation 

  • Occupation of the Philippines and Dutch East Indies: Interrogation of Vice Adm. Kzutaka Shirachi, IJN 

  • New Zealand Prisoners of Japan 

  • Russo-German Collaboration During the Weimar Republic 

  • Italian Trento Division 

  • Smoky: Yorkshire Terrier Hero 

  • Under the Nose of the Gestapo 

  • Beheading of Coastwatcher Leonard Siffleet 

  • Mitchell Paige Medal of Honor 

  • Hitler’s Final Offensive: Operation Nordwind 

  • Barbarossa to Kursk: A Chronology 

  • U.S. Hunt for Axis Agent Radios 

  • “Charlemagne” Division in Pomerania, February-March 1945

  • 362 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 045

  • Anti-tank Guns Part 3 (Germany) 

  • U.S. Anti-Tank Doctrine in World War II 

  • Tanks Can Be Destroyed 

  • 37mm Gun Motor Carriage T2/T2E1 

  • Ford Gun Motor Carriage T8 

  • With Five Focke-Wulfs on Her Tail 

  • American Submarine Bonefish SS-223 

  • British Armored Car Bedford OXA 

  • Polish Fighter Pilots of No. 303 Squadron, Royal Air Force 

  • First Canadian Parachute Battalion, 1942-1945 

  • American Curtiss SO3C Seamew Floatplane 

  • Jungleers on Biak 

  • Battle of Biak 

  • Incident on Biak Island 

  • British Fairey Fulmar Fighter

  • 671 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 044

  • Anti-tank Guns Part 2: Belgian, Czech, French 

  • A Long Voyage Home: Rene Malevergne and the Invasion of North Africa 

  • Battle of the Eastern Solomons: Interrogation of Commanders H. Sekino and Masatake Okumiya, IJN 

  • Duxford Airfield 

  • French Loire 70 Flying Boat 

  • Soviet Ilyushin DB-3 Bomber 

  • Italian Fiat M11/39 Medium Tank 

  • Attack on Hill 593 by the Polish II Corps: Cassino, Italy, May 18-24, 1944 

  • Wojtek, the Polish Soldier Bear 

  • Royal Indian Army Service Corps 

  • Soviet Radio-Electronic Combat in World War II 

  • You Can Still be a Gentleman… Even Though You Served in the Pacific 

  • “The World Will Hold its Breath…”: 22 June 1941, The First Day of Operation Barbarossa 

  • Why France Fell

  • 424 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 043

  • Anti-tank Guns Part 1: American and British 

  • De Havilland Australia DHA-G2 Transport Glider 

  • History of Tanks in Canada, 1939-1945 

  • “Hammy” Gray: Canadian Fighter Pilot, VC 

  • Kiev 1941 

  • Battle for Saint-Lô 

  • Pierre Le Gloan: Mystery Ace of World War II 

  • 501st Schwere Panzerabteilung in North Africa 

  • German Butterfly Bomb 

  • German Siebel Fh 104 Light Transport/Liaison 

  • The Rommel Myth 

  • German Battleship Tirpitz 

  • Loss of the German Battleship Tirpitz on 12 November 1944: Technical Report No. 225-45 

  • Howitzers Against Soviet Tanks

  • 433 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 042: Japanese Airpower

  • Kawasaki Ki-32 "Mary" 

  • Mitsubishi A6M Zero "Zeke" 

  • Nakajima Ki-12 

  • Mitsubishi Ki-15 "Babs" 

  • Tachikawa Ki-17 "Cedar" 

  • Mitsubishi Ki-18 

  • Kawasaki Ki-28 "Bob" 

  • Mitsubishi Ki-30 "Ann" 

  • Aichi E16A "Paul" 

  • Aichi E13A "Jake" 

  • Mitsubishi Ki-21 "Sally" 

  • Mitsubishi Ki-57 "Topsy" 

  • Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka "Baka" 

  • Nakajima E8N "Dave" 

  • Japanese Fire Balloon 

  • Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" 

  • 474 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 041: American Airpower

  • “Old Grandpappy”: Boeing XB-15 Super Flying Fortress 

  • Boeing XB-15 

  • Frank Maxwell Andrews, Major General, USAAF 

  • An Ace Called Gentile 

  • Airfields of the Eighth: Grafton Underwood 

  • 55th Fighter Group, USAAF 

  • 384th Bombardment Group (Heavy), USAAF 

  • James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, USAAF 

  • The Doolittle Raid: World War II’s Greatest Gamble

  • 561 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 040: American Fighting Vehicles

  • Amphtracs Away! LVT: Landing Vehicle, Tracked 

  • The “Jeep”: Truck, ¼-ton, 4x4 

  • Dodge WC Truck Series

  • 491 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 039: Consolidated's Coronado

This issue provides a pictorial history of the Consolidated PB2Y Coronado flying boat patrol bomber with history, data, and 144 B&W and color photographs The Coronado saw service in transport and anti-submarine duties with the U.S. Navy and the Royal Air Force during World War II.

World War 2 In Review
No. 038

  • American Aircraft Carrier Yorktown CV-5 

  • The Royal Air Force in World War II 

  • Avro Lancaster Formation Markings 

  • French Farman F.220 Series Heavy Bomber 

  • American Seversky P-35 Fighter 

  • British Folding Boat Equipment 

  • Fort Knox’s Dryland Navy: LST Training Mockup 

  • German Self-propelled Anti-aircraft Gun Flakpanzer Coelian 

  • Soviet Wartime Tank Formations 

  • Czechoslovakian 10 cm Houfnice vz. 30 Howitzer 

  • Lowly Canadian Voluntary Service Medal Became Important 

  • British Admiral Dudley Pound 

  • Humanism and Peace: Eleanor Roosevelt’s “Mission” to the Pacific, August-September 1943 

  • Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) 

  • My Bare-Handed War Against the Emperor’s Bushido Killers: A CBI Participant’s Account 

  • 422 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 037: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

  • Pictorial history of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938. 

  • The Warhawk was used by most Allied powers during World War II, and remained in frontline service until the end of the war. 

  • It was the third most-produced American fighter, after the P-51 and P-47; by November 1944, when production of the P-40 ceased, 13,738 had been built. 

  • History with photos and illustrations covering development, operational history, variants and more, in service with the USAAF, RAF, RCAF, RAAF, RNZAF, NEIAF, Finland, France, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, Japan. 

  • 562 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 036: An Illustrated Chronology

  • Provides a detailed chronology of the war from September 1, 1939, and includes a selection of 474 B&W and color photographs covering the war from beginning to end. 

  • The photos are placed in chronological order showing how the war affected everyone, everywhere, every day.

World War 2 In Review
No. 035: M1 Combat Car and M2 Light Tank

  • The M1 Combat Car was a light tank used by the U.S. Cavalry in the late 1930s. After the Spanish Civil War, most armies, including the U.S. Army, realized that they needed "gun" armed tanks and not vehicles armed merely with machine guns, and so the M1 became obsolete. 

  • The M1 was the immediate predecessor of the M2 Light Tank. The Light Tank M2 was an American pre-World War II light tank that saw combat with the U.S. Marine Corps' 1st Tank Battalion on Guadalcanal in 1942. 

  • M2A4s served in Burma and India with the British 7th Hussars and 2nd Royal Tank Regiment. The M2A4 was the immediate predecessor of the M3 Stuart series of light tanks. 

  • 230 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 034: Fighting Vehicles

  • Polish TK/TKS Tankette 

  • Soviet BA-20 Armored Car 

  • American Ford GPA Amphibious Jeep 

  • American M1 Heavy Tractor 

  • American M4 Medium High-Speed Tractor 

  • Hungarian Armored Car 39M Csaba 

  • Stuart Tanks in the Desert 

  • German Self-propelled Gun 7.5cm Pak 97/98(f) auf Pz. 740 (r) 

  • German Self-propelled Howitzer 15 cm sFH 13/1 auf Lorraine Schlepper (f)

  • 391 B&W and color photographs and illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 033: German Airpower

  • Messerschmitt Me 163 "Komet" rocket fighter 

  • "Mistel" Bomb Drone composite aircraft (one of the first "drones") 

  • Focke-Wulf (Tank) Ta 154 "Moskito" night fighter 

  • Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter 

  • Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber 

  • Focke-Wulf Triebflügel VTOL interceptor concept 

  • Messerschmitt Me 261 long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft project

  • 442 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 032: Soviet Fighting Vehicles

  • Kliment Voroshilov KV-1, KV-2 and KV-85 Heavy Tanks, flamethrower tanks and experimental models 

  • T-35 Heavy Tank 

  • T-100 Heavy Tank 

  • SMK Heavy Tank 

  • IS-1, IS-2 and IS-3 Heavy Tanks 

  • T-42 Super-Heavy Tank

  • 349 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 031: American Fighting Vehicles

  • M2 Medium Tank 

  • M3 Medium Tank 

  • M5 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) 

  • M5 High Speed Tractor (HST) 

  • M6 Heavy Tank 

  • M6 Gun Motor Carriage "Fargo" 

  • T7 Light Tank/M7 Medium Tank 

  • M7 Howitzer Motor Carriage (HMC) "Priest" 

  • M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage 

  • M10 Gun Motor Carriage 

  • M12 Gun Motor Carriage 

  • M18 Gun Motor Carriage "Hellcat." 

  • Including service with British, Canadian, Australian, Chinese, Soviet, German, and French forces. 

  • 502 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 030: Grumman's Wildcat

This issue of World War 2 In Review covers the Grumman F4F Wildcat with 383 B&W and color photographs and illustrations of its prototypes and variants, and the air forces that used this famous naval fighter. The Grumman F4F Wildcat was an American carrier-based fighter aircraft that began service with both the United States Navy and the British Royal Navy (as the Martlet) in 1940. First used in combat by the British in Europe, the Wildcat was the only effective fighter available to the United States Navy and Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater during the early part of World War II in 1941 and 1942.

World War 2 In Review
No. 029: Consolidated’s Naval Liberator and Privateer

  • Covers the Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator and the PB4Y-2 Privateer, World War II patrol bombers of the U.S. Navy derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The Navy had been using unmodified B-24s as the PB4Y-1 Liberator, and the type was considered very successful. A fully navalized design was desired, and Consolidated developed a dedicated long-range patrol bomber in 1943, designated PB4Y-2 Privateer. 

  • Also included is coverage of the RY-3 Liberator Express transport version of the PB4Y-2, R2Y Liberator Liner airliner, RY-1 Liberator Express passenger plane, and the history of Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-106, “The Wolverators," which flew both the PB4Y-1 and PB4Y-2 during World War II.

  • 433 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 028: German Fighting Vehicles

  • Panzerkampfwagen IV Medium Tank (SdKfz 161) 

  • Jagdpanzer IV and Panzer IV/70 Tank Destroyer (SdKfz 162) 

  • Panzerwerfer Rocket Launcher Half-track (SdKfz 4/1) 

  • German Armored Fighting Vehicle Production During World War II

  • 436 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 027: Mitsubishi Ki-46 Dinah

  • Coverage of the Mitsubishi Ki-46, a twin-engine reconnaissance aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War II. Its Army Shiki designation was Type 100 Command Reconnaissance Aircraft; the Allied nickname was “Dinah." 

  • In 1944-45, during the last days of the war, it was modified as a high-altitude interceptor, with two 20mm cannons in the nose and one 37mm cannon in an "upwards-and-forwards" position (similar to the Luftwaffe's Schräge Musik night fighter cannon emplacements) for fighting USAAF B-29 Superfortresses over the metropolitan Japanese islands.

  • 255 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 026: American Fighting Vehicles

  • Six-ton Tank M1917 

  • Tank Mark VIII 

  • Christie Tank Designs 

  • Marmon-Herrington CTLS Light Tanks 

  • M22 Light Tank “Locust” 

  • M24 Light Tank “Chaffee"

  • 595 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 025: Italian Fighting Vehicles

  • Tanks in the Italian Army 

  • Fiat 2000 Heavy Tank 

  • Fiat 3000 Light Tank 

  • Lancia IZM Armored Car 

  • Carro Veloce CV33 and L3/33 Tankettes 

  • Carro Veloce L3/35 Tankette 

  • Italian L3 Tanks 

  • Fiat L6/40 Light Tank 

  • Semovente 47/32 Self-Propelled Gun 

  • Semovente 75/18 Self-Propelled Gun 

  • Semovente 75/34 Self-Propelled Gun 

  • Autoblinda AB40, AB41, AB42, AB43 Armored Cars 

  • Autoblinda AB40/AB41 in the Wehrmacht 

  • SPA-Viberti AS42 Reconnaissance Vehicle 

  • SPA AS37 Light Truck

  • 322 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 024: Ground Power

  • The Battle of New Guinea: A Wartime Report 

  • Six Hours at Balta: C Company, 744th Engineer Regiment, on the Russian Front, 3 August 1941 

  • Parachuting into Estonia 

  • The 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal 

  • The War in the Solomons: A Wartime Report 

  • American Landings at Cape Torokina, Bougainville 

  • The Battle of Cibik’s Ridge: Bougainville, November 1943 

  • Christmas on Bougainville: A Marine Remembers 

  • Battle in the Bulge: A Wartime Report 

  • 123rd Infantry Regiment of the 50th German Infantry Division in the Breakthrough Battle for the Parpach Position, 8-11 May 1942 

  • The Devil Dog: With the 9th Marines On Guam 

  • The “Desert Fox” on the Run: An Easter Sunday in a World of Hell 

  • ULTRA and the Allied Breakout in Normandy 

  • The Devil’s Brigade: The First Special Service Force 

  • The Devil's Brigade: The Film

  • 258 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 023: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

  • This issue covers the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber of World War II fame: 

  • Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Design, experimental models, production, early service models, and all main B-17 models throughout World War II, plus:

  • Boeing B-17 Interior 

  • Flying The Atlantic: A Tribute To Baskin Lawrence 

  • Hunted By Japs For Years, American Flier Is Rescued 

  • B-17 Pilot Recalls Days of World War II Bombing of Germany 

  • From Flying Missions Over Germany to a POW Camp 

  • Flying Fortress Frozen for 53 Years May Fly Again 

  • The B-17’s Last Combat Mission 

  • 891 color and B&W photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 022: American Half-tracks

  • Covers the M2 Halftrack Car and M3 Halftrack series of vehicles, including the variants in the M2, M3, M5, M9 Armored Personnel Carriers:

  • M3, T48 GMC (Gun Motor Carriage) self-propelled guns

  • T19, T30 HMC (Howitzer Motor Carriage) self-propelled howitzers

  • MMC (Mortar Motor Carriage)

  • M13, M14, M16, M17 MGMC (Multiple Gun Motor Carriage)

  • M15 CGMC (Combination Gun Motor Carriage) anti-aircraft guns 

  • Experimental Variants

  • The 3rd Field Artillery Battalion (Provisional) in the Philippines 1941-1942 

  • M3 Gun Motor Carriage 

  • M16 Half-tracks in the Philippines: After Action Reports of the 209th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion

  • 408 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 021: Messerschmitt Bf 109

  • This issue covers the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter (interchangeably called the Me 109), the Luftwaffe’s main fighter aircraft during World War II.

  • Messerschmitt Bf 109 

  • Messerschmitt Bf 109 in Color 

  • Messerschmitt Bf 109 in View 

  • Ace of Aces: Erich Hartmann 

  • Hermann Graf: Ninth-Ranking Experten 

  • 75 Victories! Hans Pichler – Luftwaffe Experten 

  • Jagdgeschwader 27 “Afrika" 

  • 401 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 020: Consolidated B-24 Liberator

  • This issue provides coverage of the B-24 Liberator bomber. The B-24 was used in World War II by several Allied air forces and navies, and by every branch of the American armed forces during the war, attaining a distinguished war record with its operations in the Western European, Pacific, Mediterranean, and CBI Theaters. The B-24 provided excellent service in a variety of roles thanks to its large payload and long range. 

  • This pictorial includes a concise history of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber, as well as coverage of the XB-41 long range escort, C-87 Liberator Express, and C-109 fuel tanker models. Also included are two articles: “Operation Tidal Wave,” the low-level strike against the Ploesti oil fields in Romania on 1 August 1943, and “Flying the B-24 Bomber Was No Picnic.” 

  • 412 B&W/color photos/illustrations.

World War 2 In Review
No. 019: French Fighting Vehicles

  • Char B1 heavy tank manufactured before World War II

  • Char D1 was a pre-World War II French infantry tank

  • Char D2 was an upgraded version of the D1

  • Char 2C, also known as FCM 2C, was a French super-heavy tank developed, although never deployed, during World War I, which was the largest operational tank ever taken into production, and they were used mostly for propaganda purposes during the early months of World War II

  • 387 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 018: Lockheed Hudson

  • This issue covers one of the most versatile aircraft of World War II. The Lockheed Hudson was an American-built light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft built initially for the Royal Air Force shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War and primarily operated by the RAF thereafter. 

  • They were also used extensively with the Royal Canadian Air Force's anti-submarine squadrons, as well as with the Royal Australian and New Zealand Air Forces in the Pacific, and with the USAAF and the US Navy in a variety of roles. 

  • 347 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 017

  • USS Alabama BB-60: American Battleship

  • The Aerodynamic Development of the Peenemünde Rockets

  • British G.S. Mark V Anti-tank Mine

  • Avro Anson: British Multi-Role Aircraft

  • Organization Todt

  • 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment at Bastogne, Belgium, December 1944

  • The U.S. Navy at Bataan

  • Darned Clever These Chinese… and Confounding: An American Veteran Remembers

  • Action in the Eifel: A German Veteran Remembers

  • Fairey Firefly: British Fighter/Anti-Submarine Aircraft

  • French 25 mm Hotchkiss Anti-tank Gun

  • Breakout from the Klin Pocket, Russian Front, December 1941

  • Truk and Operation Hailstone

  • The Navy Neutralizes Truk, February 1944

  • Orders for Flight Crews of USS Enterprise for Operation Hailstone

  • VB-10 Hits Truk During Operation Hailstone

  • 530 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 016: German Fighting Vehicles

  • Panzerkampfwagen III

  • German Combat Vehicles of World War II

  • German Remote-Controlled Demolition Vehicle Schwerer Ladungsträger Borgward B IV

  • Panzerkampfwagen 35(t): German Light Tank

  • 615  B&W and color photographs and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 015

  • Memorial of the USS Wasp CV-7 

  • New Georgia Campaign 

  • Landings on Rendova 

  • Night Attack: USS Sealion SS-315 Sinks the Japanese Battleship Kongo 

  • Submarine War Art 

  • Japanese Occupation of the Philippines and Dutch East Indies: Interrogation of Vice Adm. Kzutaka Shirachi, IJN 

  • “A Talk with Some Japs” [A Contemporary News Report] 

  • OSS/U.S. Army Spies in Tibet, 1942-1943 

  • The Soviet-Japanese War of 1945 

  • 3rd New Zealand Division 

  • The Operational History of the 3rd New Zealand Division Tank Squadron 

  • 3rd New Zealand Division Special Tank Squadron

  • 272 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 014: American 2½-ton 6x6 Truck

  • This issue covers the American 2½-ton 6x6 medium truck series of World War II, the “deuce and a half,” with coverage of the GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6x6 truck and the Studebaker US6 2½-ton 6x6 truck series. Five different designs were standardized by the U.S., two were also standardized by Canada. One was built primarily for Lend-Lease export during World War II.

  • 322 B&W and color photographs and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 013: American Fighting Vehicles

  • DUKW Amphibious Truck 

  • Armored Car M38 “Wolfhound” 

  • Multiple Gun Motor Carriage T52 

  • 90mm Gun Motor Carriage M36 “Slugger” 

  • Armored Car M8 “Greyhound” 

  • Armored Utility Car M20 

  • Scout Car M3

  • 508 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 012: Warships

  • USS Lexington CV-2 aircraft carrier 

  • Ghost Ship: USS Stewart DD-224 destroyer 

  • USS Varuna AGP-5 motor torpedo boat tender 

  • USS Ashland LSD-1 dock landing ship 

  • USS Whale SS-239 submarine 

  • Sky Lookout Support 

  • HMS Jervis Bay’s battle with German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer 

  • Sinking of S.S. Athenia 

  • Landing Craft Tank (LCT)

  • 293 B&W/color photos/illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 011

  • Armor at Oran: Operation Torch 1942 

  • Balikpapan: First Far East Victory 

  • Breakthrough to Bastogne 

  • Clash at Bir el Gobi 

  • Counterpoint to Stalingrad: Operation Mars, Nov-Dec 1942: Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat 

  • Deadly Gadgets of the OSS: When Uncle Sam Played Dirty 

  • Defenders of Wake Island 

  • Doug Bader: RAF Hurricane Ace 

  • First Engagement: 289th RCT in the Battle of the Bulge 

  • From Hong Kong to the Gates of India 

  • The Battle of Hong Kong 

  • Official Report by Maj-Gen C.M. Maltby, GOC Hong Kong 

  • German Horse Cavalry and Transport 

  •  I Was Expendable: A Lookout on the Bridge of Muskallunge SS-262 

  • Koncrete Kriegsmarine: Transporting German Naval Craft Overland 

  • Nagasaki Decoy, 9 August 1945 

  • Father O’Callahan of the USS Franklin (CV-13)

  • 304 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 010: French Fighting Vehicles

  • AMC 34 Light Tank 

  • AMC 35 Medium Cavalry Tank 

  • Panhard 178 Armored Car 

  • AMC Schneider P 16 Half-track 

  • AMR Citroën P 28 Half-track 

  • AMR 33 Light Tank 

  • AMR 35 Light Tank 

  • AMR P103 Light Tank 

  • ARL V 39 Self-Propelled Assault Gun 

  • Canon de 194 mle GPF Self-Propelled Gun 

  • P107 Half-track 

  • SOMUA MCG Half-track

  • 696 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 009: Warships

  • Germany’s Battleship Bismarck 

  • Sinking of the Bismarck, 27 May 1941: Official Despatches 

  • USS Gudgeon SS-211 

  • USS Peary DD-226 

  • USS Bennington CV-20 

  • USS Alaska CB-1 

  • USS Hugh W. Hadley DD-774 

  • Danish Coast Defense Ship Niels Juel 

  • Danish Coast Defense Ship Peder Skram 

  • Danish Training Ship Danmark

  • 419 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 008: Warplanes

  • Curtiss SBC Helldiver 

  • Regia Aeronautica Aircraft Used in World War II

  • Aeronautica Umbra Trojani AUT.18 

  • Regia Aeronautica Camouflage and Markings 

  • Saunders Roe (Saro) London 

  • Amiot 350 Series 

  • Hawker Hart 

  • Noorduyn Norseman 

  • ANF Les Mureaux 113

  • 427 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 007: Warplanes

  • Consolidated PBY Catalina 

  • Heinkel He 112 

  • German Jägernotprogramm Fighter Design 

  • Gotha P.56: German Flying Fuel Tank Project 

  • Gotha P.57: German Glider Bomb Project 

  • Martin A-30 Baltimore 

  • Blackburn Firebrand 

  • Aircraft of the French Air Force 

  • Amiot 143 

  • Arsenal-Delanne 10 

  • Aichi B7A “Grace” 

  • Polikarpov I-16 

  • Czechoslovak Aero A.100

  • 997 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 006

  • Communist Guerrilla Warfare Against the Japanese: Base Area Utilization and Expansion 

  • “There Are Only Dead Men on the Bridge…”: Medal of Honor Recipient Lt. Comdr. Bruce McCandless 

  • General Alexander M. Patch: From the South Pacific to the Brenner Pass 

  • Fight Talk: General Cable Corporation in World War II 

  • 6th SS Mountain Division 

  • U.S. Submarine Losses in World War II 

  • U.S. Navy Submarine Badge 

  • Crossing the Rhine: The 5th Division at Oppenheim 

  • The ‘88’ with 20/20 Vision 

  • Allied Offensive Mining Campaign: Interrogation of Captain Kyuzo Tamura, IJN and Commander Binzo Sugita, IJN 

  • Anti-tank Artillery of the Red Army in Action 

  • Attack on a Fortified City: Brest Litovsk, Byelorussia, 1941 

  • One Man’s War: “Commando” Kelly 

  • Nachtjagdgeschwader 2

  • 474 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 005: Fighting Vehicles

  • Rommel’s Vehicles 

  • AMC 35: French Medium Cavalry Tank 

  • SdKfz 221 Armored Car Series 

  • SdKfz 221 

  • SdKfz 222 

  • SdKfz 223 

  • SdKfz 260 

  • SdKfz 261 

  • Sturmpanzer IV Brummbär SdKfz 166 

  • Sherman versus Panzerkampfwagen IV 

  • Lend-Lease Sherman Tanks

  • 717 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 004

  • The Death of a Lady: The Aftermath of the Sinking of the Light Cruiser USS Helena CL-50 

  • A Jaundiced View of Tanks 

  • Alexander Archer Vandegrift: Medal of Honor Recipient 

  • The Last Patrol of the USS Wahoo 

  • Battle of the Bulge: General Gavin’s Report 

  • American and German Field Artillery in the Battle of the Bulge 

  • Escape from Death in a Wellington 

  • Dead-End Roads for the Japanese: Burma – Coral Sea – Midway 

  • French Airbase at Dijon 

  • To the Last Man, to the Last Round… Why? Stalingrad, November 1942-February 1943 

  • The Kamikaze Killers: USS Hugh W. Hadley and USS Evans 

  • The Libya Campaign of May-June 1942 

  • The Nazi “Kamikazes”: German Leaders Failed to Recognize a New Counteramphibious Tactic 

  • The Coast Artillery at Fort Monroe

  • 402 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 003: Warships

  • USS Franklin CV-13 

  • Ordeal of the Franklin 

  • USS Franklin CV-13 War Damage Report No. 56 

  • USS Lexington Loss in Action, May 8, 1942, Coral Sea: Preliminary Report 

  • British CAM (Catapult Armed Merchant) Ship 

  • British X Craft Submarines 

  • HMS Avon Vale L06 

  • The End of the U-250 

  • Italian Battleship Conte di Cavour 

  • Italian Gabbiano Class Corvette 

  • Naval Battle Ensigns 

  • Blast Screens for Destroyers 

  • Japanese Super Battleship Yamato 

  • Japanese Super Battleship Musashi 

  • Japanese Aircraft Carrier Akagi 

  • Japanese Battlecruiser Design B-65 

  • The Ordeal of the Ohio and Operation Pedestal 

  • HMNZS Leander 

  • If Derelicts Could Speak: HMCS Cape Breton, Matane and Coaticook

  • 407 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 002

  • Don’t Forget the Privates: The Infantryman Won the War in Europe 

  • The 3rd U.S. Infantry Division Crosses the Meurthe 

  • Dieppe in Retrospect: It Paid Off on D-Day 

  • A GI’s Wartime Letters 

  • 513th U.S. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1942-1945 

  • The 3rd U.S. Infantry Division in World War II 

  • Command Decision: The Sacrifice of General George C. Marshall and the Normandy Invasion 

  • Battle of Arnhem 

  • Arnhem: Headlong Into Hell 

  • Battle of the Atlantic 

  • Walther Dahl: Jagdflieger 

  • Stalingrad: An Examination of Hitler’s Decision to Airlift 

  • Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Navy 

  • The Passing of Harry Hill, British Merchant Seaman 

  • Aerial Combat Tactics 

  • A Brief History of Guided Missiles in World War II 

  • The Night a Japanese Sub Shelled the California Coast

  • 458 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 001: Pearl Harbor

  • The Road to Pearl Harbor 

  • Anti-torpedo Baffles for Protection Against Torpedo Plane Attacks, Pearl Harbor, February 1941

  • Bombs Over Pearl Harbor: A Family Affair 

  • Japan’s Pearl Harbor Spy: Takeo Yoshikawa 

  • Japanese Spy at Pearl Harbor 

  • Japanese Battle Orders for Pearl Harbor Attack 

  • United States Note to Japan, 26 November 1941 

  • Out of the Loop: Japan’s Envoys Unaware of Pearl Harbor Attack 

  • War Warnings: Deliberately Confused Messages 

  • USS Ward’s Attack on a Japanese Midget Submarine at Pearl Harbor 

  • The Mystery of Midget D: Crew of Sunken Japanese Submarine Never Found 

  • Hawaii Undersea Research Lab Report on Condition of Three Piece Japanese Midget Submarine 

  • The Attack on Pearl Harbor 

  • The Battle of Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941 – “Day of Infamy” 

  • Chronology of the Pearl Harbor Attack 

  • Ships Present at Pearl Harbor, 0800, 7 December 1941 

  • The USS St. Louis at Pearl Harbor 

  • Pearl Harbor Heroes: George Welsh and Ken Taylor 

  • Pearl Harbor’s Hero with a Hangover 

  • Pearl Harbor: Up Close and Very Personal 

  • “0745—Rig for Church”: A Chaplain at Pearl Harbor 

  • A Marine’s View from Kaneohe NAS 

  • A Sailor’s View from Battleship Row 

  • A Sailor’s View from the U.S.S. Tangier 

  • A Sailor’s View from the U.S.S. Vestal 

  • A Sailor’s View from the U.S.S. Sumner 

  • A Sailor’s View from Ford Island NAS 

  • “We Were There”: Pearl Harbor Survivors 

  • Flying Into the Hell of Pearl Harbor 

  • Eyewitness Gives Vivid Description of Nippon Raid on Pearl Harbor 

  • Military and Civilian Deaths at Pearl Harbor 

  • USS Arizona Casualties and Survivors 

  • Churchill: “Roosevelt Did Know” 

  • Pearl Harbor: The Second Japanese Attack 

  • Mitsuo Fuchida 

  • USS Arizona Memorial 

  • Advancement of Rear Admiral Kimmel and Major General Short 

  • Did You Know… 

  • Pearl Harbor Bibliography

  • 307 B&W and color photos and illustrations

World War 2 In Review
No. 000: A Primer

  • Foreword   

  • The War in Color  

  • World War II: Introduction  

  • Timeline of Events Preceding World War II   

  • Events Preceding World War II in Asia   

  • Events Preceding World War II in Europe   

  • Diplomatic History of World War II   

  • List of All War Declarations and Other Outbreaks of Hostilities  

  • Germany Between Two Wars   

  • The Peace Which Could Not Last: Why 1939 Had to Follow 1919   

  • U.S. Army Organization, 1941   

  • U.S. Government Policy Toward Civilian Women During World War II   

  • Allied Interoperability Between the Wars   

  • The First to Be Freed: British Military Administration in Eritrea and Somalia, 1941-1943   

  • Soviet-Japanese Confrontation in Outer Mongolia: The Battle of Nomonhan-Khalkin Gol  

  • 426 B&W and color photos and illustrations

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