February 2008
Black eagles
Some of the most reassuring sights a bomber pilot could see fromj his cockpit were the red-tailed planes of a Tuskegee Airmen fighter escort. By Edward G. Longacre.
Captain Hollywood
Mobbed by women and sought for capture by his fan the Fuhrer, Clark Gable never got his wish: to be an ordinary B-17 gunner. By John E. Stanchak
Make them last
Those WWII treasures in your attic are antiques now, and time is not on their side. Here's what you need to do. By Judy P. Sopronyi
The faithful four
On a torpedoed troop shipo in the icy North Atlantic, four army chaplains made a heroic choice to put other men's survival before their own. By Richard Sassaman
To top it off, go where the buck stops--Harry Truman's official library and museum--and swing with a GI trumpeter in a high-flying band.