World War II – October 2019
38 Japanese soldiers lie on the beach near Buna Government Station in January 1943, their wrecked landing vessel in the backgrou ...
THE TWO BATTLES OF BUNA One became the first victory of the war by an American ground commander. The other was far more personal ...
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earth just to get a few guns in place to support the push for Buna. “I am putting this man in command of the division.” “I take ...
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OCTOBER 2019 43 Eichelberger’s run-in with the snipers was typical of what was hap- pening all over the Buna perimeter. The Amer ...
44 WORLD WAR II a man possessed—partly, according to Colonel Rogers, because Eichelberger had promised him American citizenship ...
OCTOBER 2019 45 lessness about him. Instead of replacing Byers with another division commander, he simply filled the role himsel ...
46 WORLD WAR II GEO RG E^ S TRO CK /TH E^ L IFE PIC TUR E^ C OL LEC TIO N/G ETT Y^ IM AG ES anyone in the bunker. According to o ...
OCTOBER 2019 47 BET TM AN N/G ETT Y^ IM AGE S headed up the War Department’s public relations branch. These slights might have b ...
SMALL, SPEEDY, AND VERSATILE, PT (patrol torpedo) boats did yeoman’s work for the U.S. Navy during World War II. Four 21-inch to ...
GERMAN FAST ATTACK S-BOAT Crew: 24–30 / Length: 107.5 ft / Speed: 44 knots / Beam: 16 ft 6 in / Propulsion: Three 2,000-hp engin ...
50 FINAL RECKON Although the crew of B-24 Liberator Hot Stuff was the ÞUVWWRVXUYLYHWKHRGGVDQG FRPSOHWHDIXOOWRXURIGXW\ ...
ING The crew of a B-24 bomber completed 31 combat missions and readied to come home as heroes —but fate had other ideas By Josep ...
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TO P:^ U .S.^ AIR FO RCE ;^ BO TTO M:^ NA TIO NA L^ A RCH IVE S ers, and Hot Stuff returned with its fuselage pockmarked with bu ...
its crew downed three—possibly four—of the fighters. By the end of November, Shannon and his crew had racked up 10 missions. In ...
OCTOBER 2019 55 Bombardier Robert T. Jacobson completed his 31st combat mission over enemy territory on March 31, 1943, when Hot ...
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