World War 2 Journal Volume 1

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Merriam Press World War 2 Journal Volume 1 (First Edition, 2015). Contains 18 articles: (1) Battle of the Bulge; (2) 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment at Bastogne, Belgium, December 1944; (3) 501st Schwere Panzerabteilung in North Africa; (4) Soviet Army Rifle Division, 1939–45; (5) The U.S. Navy at Bataan; (6) Night Attack: USS Sealion (SS-315) Sinks the Kongo; (7) Dead-End Roads for the Japanese: Burma – Coral Sea – Midway; (8) Armor at Oran: Operation Torch, 1942; (9) Christmas on Bougainville; (10) Interrogation of Vice Adm. Kzutaka Shirachi, IJN: Occupation of the Philippines and Dutch East Indies; (11) I Was Expendable; (12) Sky Lookout Support; (13) Incident on Biak Island; (14) Darned Clever These Chinese… and Confounding; (15) A Jaundiced View of Tanks; (16) Action in the Eifel; (17) A Talk with Some Japanese POWs; (18) The ‘88’ with 20/20 Vision. 215 photos, 2 maps.

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412 printed pages

Original publication: 2015

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b0984241249has quoted4 years ago
Men fought, at times, with only rifles, grenades and knives against German armor. They fought with only light weapons in waist-deep snow, in blizzards, in near zero temperatures and in areas where heavy forestation and the almost total lack of roads presented problems that only men of stout hearts and iron determination could overcome
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The 82nd Airborne Division, still awaiting reinforcements and much re-supply at its base camps in the general area of Rheims, France, moved 150 miles with its first combat elements going into position in less than twenty-four hours and the entire division closing in a new combat area in less than forty hours from the time of the initial alert.
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