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World War II 2005 March Magazine Iwo Jima U-boat engineer turned Panzer Capt
World War II March 2005 Rippling Staining
CONTENTS
26 Churchill's Guiding Hand By Christopher C. Harmon The British prime minister's deft handling of the ship of state ensured that the Allies endured the darkest moments of World War II and were ready for victory when it finally came.
34 End of Toepfer's Odyssey Interview by Robert Mulcahy Three years as a U-boat engineering officer did little to prepare Rudi Toepfer for the horrors he would experience during his country's death throes.
40 Slaughter at Ingelfingen By Brian Keller The German defense of a small, unimportant hill in the final weeks of the war resonates to this day.
46 Into the Meat Grinder By Charles A. Jones Battalion commander Shelton Scales describes Iwo Jima as a "graveyard for the dead and hell for the living." Like many veterans, he cannot explain why he survived and others perished.
54 Sulfur Island's Youngest Hero By Daniel W. Homstad On Iwo Jima, 17-year-old Jack Lucas proved that youth and courage can go hand in hand.
6 EDITORIAL
8 COMMUNIQU
10 WWII TODAY
12 COMMANDS By Peter L. Magoon 1st Naval Construction Battalion
14 ONE MAN'S WAR By Charles A. Jones Edward Vassar Stephenson, 3rd Marine Division
16 ARMAMENT By Albert Mroz Adolf Hitler relied on synthetic gasoline to fuel his Luftwaffe. One of the largest refineries was run by the inmates at Auschwitz.
22 PERSPECTIVES By Richard W. Hale Tanks in northern Burma? The First Provisional Chinese-American Tank Group was the wild card in battling the Japanese in the mountainous terrain.
62 UNDERCOVER By Cara Saylor Polk General Alexander Freiherr von Falkenhausen remains a little-remembered figure in the series of plots carried out by anti-Nazi German officers to unseat Adolf Hitler.
68 REVIEWS
76 WWII MARKETPLACE
82 ALMANAC By Jim Sutton
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