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Features

 

HOLLYWOOD’S HERO

John Wayne talked tough as he dodged enemy bulltes–on movie sets. The fire from critics was harder to avoid. By John E. Stanchak

Web Extra: Footage

The Duke’s Classic WWII Film

Sands of Iwo Jima wasn’t made until 1949, but the fictional film treatment of the early 1945 battle with the Japanese is John Wayne’s most famous role as a fighting GI.

DEVILS AT GERMANY’S BACK DOOR

All the 504th “Devils in Baggy Pants” Parachute Infantry had to do was jump hundreds of fee past whistling flak, march a dozen miles, and cross a river in canvas rowboats through a monsoon of gunfire. Maybe then Operation Market Garden would succeed. By George Cholewczynski

YANKS TO THE GULAGS!

To POWs in German camps, the rumble of the approaching Red Army was the sound of freedom. Or so they thought. Thousands of GIs ended up in Siberia–or worse. By Brian John Murphy

OPERATION PINK PANTHER

A secret plot to blow up US bridges, utilities, and factories came from Hitler himself. But once agents started defecting, or partying like Wall Streeters on expense accounts, could any terrorism get done? By Chuck Lyons

Web Extra: More German Operatives Land on the East Coast

NAZI SPIES COME ASHORE

Departments

 

Kilroy

Notes from our editor: Golly Gee Willickers!

V-Mail

Letters from Our Readers

Home Front

America Goes Bananas

Pinup

Jane Adams

THE FUNNIES

The Human Torch

LANDINGS

Warbird-Watching in OshKosh

EAA Airventure Museum Website

 

I Was There

Revenge at Pearl Harbor

War Stories

Memories from the War Years

Books and Media

Our latest reviews

Theater of War

In Harm’s Way with John Wayne

78 RPM

“Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”

Web Extra: Audio

The First Recording

Vaughn Monroe was the first singer to cut the now-classic winter tune to shellac on Halloween of 1945.

WWII Events

A Calendar of Present-Day Happenings

GIs

Witness to Japan’s Surrender