Getting Inside Hitler’s Head
When America’s spymaster hired a psychiatrist to figure out the Führer, the result was disturbing—and, as history showed, accurate.
August 2009
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Americans in paris
Eighty days after they hit Normandy’s beaches on D-Day, GIs marched into the City of Lights, and the celebration of a lifetime. By John E. Stanchak
Scouring Guam’s … continue reading »
Articles Archive
Selected articles from past issues of the magazine’s print edition in the categories
Remember Pearl Harbor
Striking a match, sending a postcard, or even getting dressed, WWII Americans heard the same rallying cry over and over: Remember Pearl Harbor!
A Real Rosie
By Mae Graybill with Judy Sopronyi
Mae (Eckley) Graybill is proud of her World War II experience as a riveter on the B-26 Marauder medium bomber at the Glenn L. Martin plant outside Baltimore, Maryland. Lately she’s even earned … continue reading »
Fat Man and Little Boy
Sixty years ago, a pair of atomic bombs scorched Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, people who helped build them and people who felt their deadly power still grapple with the bombs’ grim realities.
Saved By Shrapnel
Sam Loeb tells of his days pushing with the 99th Infantry Division through Europe to defeat Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. (The uncut version of I Was There from the June 2010 issue.)
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.
Cloak and Dagger Army:
The OSS
Spies and saboteurs, rakes and femmes fatales, scientists and radicals: they all fought for Allied victory under the Office of Strategic Services.
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