CONTENTS

The World Goes to War at 4 A.M.

By Lynn Heinzerling

They Wouldn’t Believe it—Until Too Late

By Louis P. Lochner

“We’ve Lost Everything but Our Heart. Carry On!”

By Robert Bunnelle

Gone Was the Nazi Myth Down Smolensk Road

By Eddy Gilmore

It Sounded Like the Real Thing. It Was Real!

By Tom Yarbrough

Sunk, Rescued, Captured, Hunted, Recaptured, Freed

By Larry Allen

Yoicks, Tallyho and End Runs in Tunisia

By Daniel DeLuce

Some of Them Stayed Young, They Are the Dead

By Clyde Farnsworth

Under Fire with Teddy Roosevelt; Courage in Coventry

By Russell Landstrom

“Look, Bud, There’s the Shore, Where We’re Going Ashore.”

By Paul K. Lee

Flight and Hunger and Cold and Flight Again

By Preston Grover

Folks Back Home Called it “Island Hopping”

By J. Norman Lodge

The “Side-Show” That Held 27 Nazi Divisions

By Noland Norgaard

“We’re Being Killed on the Beach, Let’s Go Inland, Be Killed.”

By Don Whitehead

Where Boys Became Men with Purple Hearts

By Henry B. Jameson

“I Told You We Would Do It. We Did It!”

By C. Yates McDaniel

“Blitz Schnell” to the Rhine On a Shoestring

By Edward D. Ball

The Flame Trees Were Crimson on the Road Back

By Russell Brines

They Traded Their Lives for Time

By Wes Gallagher

“Tell ’Em Everything’s Normal, The 7th’s in the Mud Again.”

By Al Dopking

“The Colonel and the Corporal,” and the “Looey’s” Love

By Hal Boyle

Man Your Battle Stations! “60 Bogeys, 40 Miles!”

By Elmont Waite

“Have We Still Got a Bridge? Hell Yes, and Plenty Hot!”

By Howard Cowan

Memories of a Boy Called Michel and a Farewell to Arms

By Roger Greene

You’re Going by Glider, with “Men of Arnhem”

By William F. Boni

In a Schoolhouse at Rheims, Four Copies Were Signed

By Relman Morin

Ten Thousand Gethsemanes Beyond Lueneberg Heath

By William Frye

As They Sowed, They Reaped, at Nuernberg

By George Tucker

B-29s Complete Their Mission with Atomic Bombs!

By Vern Haugland

The “Rising Sun” Sets on the “Missouri”

By Murlin Spencer

Postscript: An Interview with George Bria

Conducted by Mike Oreskes

Reporters to Remember: A Tribute