World War II – October 2019

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JOSEPH CONNOR (“Final Reckoning ”)

graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson

University with a degree in history

and from Rutgers Law School. He

worked in New Jersey his entire

career, first as an editor and reporter

for seven years before serving 27

years as an assistant county prose-

cutor. Connor became interested in

B-24 Hot Stuff’s story while looking

into the life and death of Lieutenant

General Frank M. Andrews.

JOHN MARTIN (“In Evil’s Footsteps”)

began his journalism career in

newspapers and moved to television,

where he spent 26 years at ABC

News in New York and Washington,

D.C. Retiring in 2002, he taught for

nearly a decade at Columbia Univer-

sity’s Graduate School of Journal-

ism; he is currently a public policy

research fellow at the Woodrow

Wilson International Center for

Scholars. His article is based on his

1985 reporting for ABC News track-

ing down the Nazi “Angel of Death,”

Josef Mengele.

JOHN C. MCMANUS (“The Two

Battles of Buna”) is Curators’ Dis-

tinguished Professor of American

Military History at Missouri Uni-

versity of Science and Technology.

His latest book, Fire and Fortitude,

from which his story is drawn, is the

first of two major volumes telling

the relatively overlooked story of the

U.S. Army in the Asiatic-Pacific

Theater. The series is the product of

more than a decade of in-depth

research and writing, during which

McManus dug up new material on

Douglas MacArthur, Robert Eichel-

berger, and many other generals.

GAVIN MORTIMER (“Bunker Mental-

ity”) is a British historian who lives

in Paris. The author of more than 20

books, Mortimer is now writing a

guide to operations of the British

special forces unit, the Special Air

Service, in France in 1944. While

conducting research in Brittany he

visited Lorient—the site of Germa-

ny’s most important U-boat base in

World War II, which has become a

bustling destination for tourists,

sailors, and history enthusiasts.

STEVEN TRENT SMITH (“A merican

Subs—Where?”) visited Rosneath,

Scotland, the wartime home of

Submarine Squadron 50, in 1982

while on assignment for CBS News.

Smith is a five-time Emmy award-

winning television photojournalist

and a frequent contributor to World

Wa r II, Military History Quarterly,

and Civil War Times. He lives in

northwest Montana, in the shadow

of the Rocky Mountains.

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MARTIN CONNOR McMANUS

MORTIMER SMITH

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