World War II – October 2019

56 WORLD WAR II such a high-ranking officer, but he refused. “I don’t want to be one of those generals who die in bed,” he joked ...

OCTOBER 2019 57 Bombardier Jacobson, too, returned home. Later assigned to the Pacific Theater, he f lew 14 combat missions over ...

BRUSH WITH DEATH Artist Howard Cook captured the terror and tedium of war in the Pacific Theater I n 1943, artist Howard Cook tr ...

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OCTOBER 2019 61 TRAINING COMPLETED in San Francisco, Cook set sail for Camp Barnes in Noumea, New Caledonia, aboard the USS Tjiz ...

62 WORLD WAR II “WE GET BORED AS HELL” between battles, Cook wrote. At right he captured a quiet moment: two men in camp headqua ...

ON HIS WAY HOME in September 1943, Cook sketched military personnel aboard the B-24 Liberator bomber transporting him, including ...

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OCTOBER 2019 69 of the American subs successfully attacked the behemoth it would have been a stunning triumph. As usual, Lady Lu ...

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72 WORLD WAR II JUST FOUR U.S. NAV Y MEN have worn the five-star insignia of a full admiral. Among their ranks, William D. Leahy ...

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