World War II

<p>After a varied career as a soldier, statesman, diplomat, and presidential adviser, Taylor wants to known as someone who “always did his damndest.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> An insider’s account of a startling— and still controversial—investigation of the Allied bombing of Germany</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A marine correspondent recalls the deadliest battle of the Pacific war</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A veteran news correspondent recalls his days as a spotter plane pilot</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a Whole Nation Said Thank You</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Combat Art of Albert K. Murray</span> </span></p>

<p>A <span class="body">bomb-laden balloon from Japan reached </span>North America, resulting in the only death from enemy action during the war.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> A British schoolboy sees the quiet English countryside come alive with excitement toward the end of 1943 when …</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The victors divided the Germans into three groups: black (Nazi), white (innocent), and gray—that vast, vast area in between</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">She was the last major American warship sunk during World War II, and her sinking was the single worst open-sea disaster in our naval history. How could it have happened?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fifty years after FDR first took office, a British statesman and historian evaluates the President’s role in the twentieth century’s most important partnership</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Normandie has been gone since World War II, but many people still remember her as the most beautiful passenger liner ever built. It is the saddest of ironies that she fled her native France to seek safety in New York Harbor.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fifty years ago this March, Roosevelt took the oath of office and inaugurated this century’s most profound national changes. One who was there recalls the President’s unique blend of ebullience and toughness.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> THE BIRTH OF THE RAND CORPORATION <span class="typestyle"> During World War II, America discovered that scientists were needed to win it—and to win any future war. That’s why RAND came into being, the first think tank and the model for all the rest.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> If he’d been the closest companion of the president of IBM, you might happen across his name in a privately printed memoir. But LeMoyne Billings was John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s best friend from Choate to the White House—and that makes him part of history.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> One of the most ingenious and least known rescue missions of World War II was engineered by a young American dandy, Varian Fry, who shepherded to safety hundreds of European intellectuals wanted by the Nazis</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> An Interview With Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Years after one of the bloodiest and most intense battles of the war in the Pacific, a Marine Corps veteran returns to Tarawa</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Along this narrow stretch of sand, all the painstaking plans for the Normandy invasion fell apart. One of the men who was lucky enough to make it past the beachhead recalls a day of fear, chaos, grief—and triumph.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> After two false starts, the B-17s got through. A pilot relives the 8th Air Force’s first successful daylight raid on the German capital</span> . </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The great man’s daughter-in-law draws a portrait of the statesman at the top of his career and at the bottom</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A thousand miles behind enemy lines, Liberator bombers struck Hitler’s Rumanian oil refineries, then headed home flying so low that some came back with cornstalks in their bomb bays</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For millions of women, consciousness raising didn’t start in the 1960s. It started when they helped win World War II.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Forty years ago it was Nazis, not communists, we wanted to keep out of Latin America. A veteran of that propaganda war recalls our efforts to bring American values to a bewildered Ecuador.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On the eve of the Normandy invasion, a training mission in the English Channel came apart in fire and horror. For years, the grim story was suppressed.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The GIs came home to find that a political machine had taken over their Tennessee county. What they did about it astounded the nation.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">40 years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in Europe.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were <span class="typestyle"> really</span> high, and, yet, military men actually trusted newsmen. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">His job was to destroy German submarines. To do it, they gave him 12 men, three machine guns, four depth charges, and an old wooden fishing schooner with an engine that literally drove mechanics mad.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In a conflict that saw saturation-bombing, Auschwitz, and the atom bomb, poison gas was never used in the field. What prevented it?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Two letters from a Navy lieutenant to his wife tell the story of the last hours of World War II.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A former Marine recalls the grim defense of Guadalcanal in 1942.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">These World War II airmen had one of the most dangerous missions of all, piloting unarmed cargo planes over the Hump - the high and treacherous Himalayas.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For a few weeks, Hitler came close to winning World War II. Then came a train of events that doomed him. An eloquent historian reminds us that,however unsatisfactory our world may be today, it almost was unimaginably worse.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It was born in America, it came of age in America, and, in an era when foreign competition threatens so many of our industries, it still sweetens our balance of trade.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A distinguished American poet recalls one of his more unusual jobs</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Within the city’s best-known landmarks and down its least-visited lanes stand surprisingly vivid mementos of our own national history</span> </p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="pullquote even">To this day nobody will take responsibility for the orphan dead of the 741st Tank Battalion.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Of the thousands of American soldiers court-martialed for desertion in World War II, Eddie Slovik was the only one put to death. One of the judges who convicted him looks back with regret.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> So big was the leak that it might have caused us to lose World War II. So mysterious is the identity of the leaker that we can’t be sure to this day who it was…or at least not entirely sure.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Early in the century, a young American accurately predicted Japan’s imperialism and China’s and Russia’s rise. Then, he set out to become China’s soldier-leader.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Slam Marshall, who is regarded as one of our great military historians, looked into the heart of combat and discovered a mystery there that raised doubts about the fighting quality of U.S. troops. But one GI thought he was a liar…</span></p>