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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Foreword
Part I Blitzkreig:
The War in Europe, September
IDSÜ-October 1940
27
INTRODUCTION
HITLER ORDERS WAR,
31
AUGUST
1939
Adoll Hitler
10
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DISCUSSES WAR
AND PEACE, LONDON,
2
SEPTEMBER
1939
Ralph Glyn, MP
11
BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY,
3
SEPTEMBER
1939
We* Chamberlain
13
HOME FRONT: LONDON AT WAR,
3
SEPTEMBER
1939
Molile Panter-Downes
15
POLAND: WE MARCHED AROUND IN CIRCLES ,
3
SEPTEMBER-5 OCTOBER
1939
Private
KS. Karol,
Polish Army
18
FINLAND: GUERILLA WAR IN THE SNOW,
2
FEBRUARY
1940
Virginia Cowles
23
NORWAY: THE ROUT OF THE BRITISH
EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,
14
APRIL-5 MAY,
1940
Genera/
Sir Adrian Carton
de Wart
THE HOME FRONT: THE PROTECTION OF
YOUR HOME AGAINST AIR RAIDS
Sfr
John Anderson
28
34
OPERATION YELLOW: THE GERMAN ATTACK
ON ROTTERDAM,
10-11
MAY
1940
Dirk van
der Helde
35
OPERATION YELLOW: CROSSING THE
MEUSE,
FRANCE,
13
MAY
1940
Erwin
Rommel,
M
Рапгег
Division
38
CHURCHILL OFFERS BLOOD, TOIL,
TEARS AND SWEAT , House of Commons,
13
MAY
1940
Winston Ohurchill
42
THE BATTLE OF FRANCE: SERGEANT PEXTON IS
TAKEN PRISONER,
20
MAY
1940
Sergeant L.D. Pexton
44
DUNKIRK: THE VIEW FROM THE BOATS,
1
JUNE
1940
Commander
CH.
Lightoller,
Ж
(Reid)
45
ONE MAN S WAR: PRIVATE JACK TOOMEY
IN FRANCE, MAY-JUNE
1940
Private Jack Toomey, 42nd Postal Unit,
British Amy
48
FRANCE SURRENDERS,
21
JUNE
1940
William Shirer, war correspondent
52
BATTLE OF BRITAIN: A BRITISH FIGHTER
PILOTS DIARY,
19
AUGUST-7 OCTOBER
1940
P/O DM Wssler RAF
57
BATTLE OF BRITAIN: DOGFIGHT OVER
SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND,
2
SEPTEMBER
1940
P/O Roger Hall,
152
Squadron RAF
61
BATTLE OF BRITAIN: A SPITFIRE PILOT BALES
OUT,
3
SEPTEMBER
1940
Richard Hillary,
Ш
Squadron RAF
67
THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN: THE BLITZ,
LONDON, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
1940
Desmond Flower, Virginia
Woolf,
Edward. R,
Murrow
68
THE
ВАШЕ
OF BRITAIN: THE VIEW FROM
THE OPERATIONS ROOM, No.
11
Fighter
Group RAF, Uxbrldge,
15
SEPTEMBER
1940
Winston S. Churchill MP
74
CONTENTS
Part II The Battle of the Atlantic:
1939-44
79
INTRODUCTION
81
THE
BOYAL
OAK IS TORPEDOED,
SCAPA
FLOW,
13
OCTOBER
1939
Günther Prien 82
THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER
PUTE,
13
DECEMBER
1939
Lieutenant-Commander
R.E
■
Washboum RN, HMNZS Achilles
83
SURVIVAL, THE ARCTIC,
8-11
JUNE
1940
Ronald Healiss, Royal Marines
87
U-99 ATTACKS A CONVOY, THE ATLANTIC,
18-19
OCTOBER
1940
Kapitan-Leutnant Otto Kretschmer,
U-99
93
HUNTING U-BOATS,
17
MARCH
1941
Captain Donald Macintyre RN,
HMS
Walker
94
THE PURSUIT OF THE BISMARCK,
24-27
MAY
1940
Lieutenant
Ludovic
Kennedy RN,
HMS
Tartar
, 98
ONE MAN S WAR: THE DIARY OF AN
ASDIC OPERATOR,
19
JANUARY-
13
FEBRUARY
1942
Frank Curry RON, HMCS
Kamsack 106
VOYAGE TO MURMANSK, SEPTEMBER
1942
Able Seaman Robed Csrse, Merchant
Navy
110
A U-BOAT IS DEPTH-CHARGED,
MID-ATLANTIC,
1942
Midshipman Heinz Schaefer, U-977
115
FATAL SIX WEEKS: THE LOG OF A
U-BOAT KILLER,
31
JANUARY-
19
FEBRUARY
1944
Commander
DEG
Wemyss RN,
HMS
Wild Goose
121
Part III The War in the Desert:
North Africa,
1940-43
129
INTRODUCTION
131
THE ITALIANS SURRENDER AT BEDA FOMM,
7
FEBRUARY
1941
Cyril My, 7th Armoured Division
132
ENTER ROMMEL, FEBRUARY-JULY
1941
Leutnant Heinz
Werner Schmidt,
Ата
Korps,
General
Erwin
Rommel,
Afrika
Korps,
Brigadier James Hargest,
5th New Zealand Infantry Brigade
134
A TANK IS BREWED UP , LIBYA,
15
JUNE
1941
Cyril
Joly,
7th Armoured Division
136
ONE MAN S WAR: DESERT WEARINESS,
OCTOBER
1991
Private
R. L
Crimp,
7th Armoured Division
138
PANZER LIED: HEISS
UBER
AFRIKAS BODEN 140
OPERATION CRUSADER: TANK BATTLE
AT
SIDI REZEGH,
28
NOVEMBER
1941
Captain Robert Crisp,
3rd
Royal Tank
Regiment, 4th Armoured Brigade
141
IN THE CAULDRON,
12
JUNE
1942
Anonymous British Gunner
149
TOBRUK: THE CONQUEROR ENTERS,
21
JUNE
1942
General
Erwin
Rommel,
Afrika Korps 154
MONTGOMERY TAKES OVER AS COMMANDER
EIGHTH ARMY, AUGUST
1942
General Bernard Montgomery,
Commander Eighth Army
154
SAS
BATTLE REPORT: RAID ON TOBRUK,
SEPTEMBER
1942
Anonymous
SAS Soldier
157
ROMMEL S AILING HEALTH,
26
AUGUST
1942
Leutnant
Alfred
Berndt, Afrika Korps
163
EL ALAMEIN:
THE PLAN, SEPTEMBER
1942
General Bernard Montgomery,
Eighth Army
№
EL ALAMEIN: THE VIEW FROM THE
AFRIKA
KORPS, 24-27
OCTOBER
1942
Field Marshal
Erwin
Rommel,
Afrika Korps 1®
EL ALAMEIN: GERMAN PRISONERS,
2
NOVEMBER
1942
Keith Douglas, Eighth Army
І74
EL ALAMEIN: THE DEFEAT OF THE
AFRIKA
KORPS, 4
NOVEMBER
1942
General Fritz Bayerlain,
Afrika Korps 177
ONE MAN S WAR: THE DIARY OF
A BRITISH SOLDIER AT EL ALAMEIN,
23
OCTOBER-« NOVEMBER
1942
Corporal John Green, Military Police
179
CONTENTS
Xl
A
MEETING
WITH THE
FÜHRER,
RASTENBURG, 28 NOVEMBER 1942
Field Marshal
Erwin
Rommel,
Afrika
Korps 183
OPERATION
TORCH: Gl MEALS, NOVEMBER
1941
Ernie
Pyle,
War
corresponden!
185
FIGHTING LIKE THE DEVIL : THE US 26TH
REGIMENT AT EL GUETTAR
23
MARCH
1943
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr,
26th Regimsnt, US
1st
Infantry Division
187
TUNIS FALLS,
7
MAY
1943
Alan Mootehead, war correspondent
189
ENVOI: I WOULDN T MISS THE EXPERIENCE
I ENCOUNTERED, JULY
1943
Sergeant Ray Salisbury, USAAF
195
Part IV
Barbarossa:
The German Invasion
of Russia, June
1941
-February
1943
INTRODUCTION
.119
WE RE GOING TO SHOW THOSE BOLSHEVIK
BUMS WHO S WHO : A GERMAN TANK
GUNNER WRITES HOME,
25
JUNE
1941
Sergeant
Karl Fuchs, 25
Panzer
Regiment
201
THE
WEHRMACHT
ADVANCES INTO RUSSIA,
JULY
1941
General
Blumentritt, Wehrmacht 202
ONE MAN S WAR:
A MOSCOVITE
JOINS THE RED
ARMY, JULY
1941
Zhuravlev Alexander Grigoryevich
203
STUKAS
DIVE-BOMB THE SOVIET FLEET,
21
SEPTEMBER
1941
Hans
Ulrich Rudel,
Luîtwaffe
206
LENINGRAD DURING THE BLOCKADE,
SEPTEMBER 1941-JANUARY
1944
Alexander Werth, war correspondent
211
THE ARRIVAL OF GENERAL WINTER ,
13
NOVEMBER
1941
Heinrich
Haape,
Wehrmacht 213
ONE MAN S WAR:
A
WEHRMACHT
SOLDIER S
DIARY OF THE RUSSIAN FRONT,
31
MARCH-26 SEPTEMBER
1942
Private First Class Wolfgang Knobllch
215
MR CHURCHILL GOES TO MOSCOW,
12
AUGUST
1942
Henry
C. Cassidy,
Journalist
224
HOLOCAUST:
SS
EXECUTION OF JEWS
IN THE UKRAINE,
5
OCTOBER
1942
Herman Graebe
228
RUSSIAN PRISONERS, JULY
1941
Benno Zleser, Wehrmacht
197
229
THE BATTLE FOR SEVASTAPOL,
7
JUNE-
4
JULY
1942
General
von Mansteln, GOC
11th Army
Ostheer
233
STALINGRAD: THE RAT WAR , OCTOBER
1942
Anonymous Officer, 24th Panzer
Division,
Benno Zieser 236
STALINGRAD: THE RUSSIAN ULTIMATUM,
8
JANUARY
1943 238
STALINGRAD: LAST LETTERS HOME,
JANUARY
1943
Anonymous German soldiers
239
STALINGRAD: THE SUFFERING OF THE
GERMAN TROOPS,
UTE
JANUARY
1943
Joachim
Wieder,
Intelligence Officer,
VIII
Corps, German Sixth Army
245
STALINGRAD: THE END
Sixth Army to High Command,
24
JANUARY
1943 248
STALINGRAD: TAKEN PRISONER,
2
FEBRUARY
1943
Joachim
Wieder,
Intelligence Officer,
VIII
Corps, German Sixth Army
249
Xli
CONTENTS
PART V Banzai: The War in the Pacific,
December
1941
-June
1942
253
INTRODUCTION
255
PEARL HARBOR: THE VIEW FROM THE
JAPANESE COCKPIT,
7
DECEMBER
1941
Taisa Milsuo Fuchida, Imperial Japanese
Naval Air Service
256
PEARL HARBOR: THE VIEW FROM THE
GROUND,
7
DECEMBER
1941
John Garcia, 7th Infantry Division
264
CABLE PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
TO PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL,
8
DECEMBER
1941 265
THE LOSS OF THE REPULSEAND PRINCE
OF WALES, OFF THE COAST OF MALAYA,
10
DECEMBER
1941
O.D. Gallagher, war correspondent
266
FLYING TIGER: AMERICAN VOLUNTEER
GROUP PILOT IN ACTION AGAINST THE
JAPANESE,
19
DECEMBER
1941
Claire
L
Chennault,
AVG
274
THE FALL OF SINGAPORE: A CIVILIAN DIARY,
9-15
FEBRUARY
1942
Dr
O.E.
Fisher
277
DEATH MARCH ON BATAAN: THE FIRST DAY,
10
APRIL
1942
Lieutenant-Colonel William Dyess,
21st Pursuit Squadron, USAAF
280
BURMA: THE BATTLE OF THE OIL FIELDS,
18
APRIL
1942
General WJ. Slim,
1st
Burma Division
287
RAID ON TOKYO,
18
APRIL
1942
Colonel James Doe-little, USAAF
233
BOOT CAMP: THE MAKING OF A MARINE,
VIRGINIA, USA,
1942
William Manchester, USMC
296
TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC: A Gl WRITES
HOME, MARCH 1942-JANUARY
1943
Sergeant B.J. Kasekow, US Army
299
HOME FRONT: JIM CROW IN THE ARMY
Private Milton Adams,
24
Quarter
Masters Battalion
300
ВАШЕ
OF MIDWAY: ONE MAN S DIARY,
4
JUNE
1942
Robert
J
Casey, war correspondent
302
MIDWAY: THE DECISIVE FIVE MINUTES,
4
JUNE
1942
Taisa Mitsuo Fuchida, Imperial Japanese
Naval Air Service
306
Part
Vi
Resistance
&
Reconquest
-
The War in Western
and Southern Europe, November 1940-May
1945 309
INTRODUCTION
311
SWORDFISH ATTACK THE ITALIAN FLEET,
TARANTO,
11
NOVEMBER
1940
Lieutenant
M. R.
MaundRN,
824
Squadron
310
LUNCH WITH
DE
GAULLE, London,
20
JANUARY
1941
Harold Nicolson, MP
317
ONE MAN S WAR: THE DIARY OF A TRAINEE
BOMBER PILOT,
26
JANUARY-18 MAY
1941
Flying Officer Michael Scott,
RAF Bomber Command
318
THE GERMAN AIRBORNE ASSAULT ON
CRETE,
20
MAY
1941
Baron
von der Heydte, 1st
Battalion,
3rd
German Parachute Regiment
322
HOLOCAUST: MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS AT
DACHAU,
1941-45
fian?
Blaha
32s
A CIRCUS OVER FRANCE, AUGUST
1941
Flight Lieutenant Johnnie Johnson,
616
Squadron RAF
329
HOME FRONT: THE GREAT MAN CHASE,
ENGLAND, DECEMBER
1941
Anonymous member
0!
the British
Women s Auxiliary Air Force
340
ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ,
5
JANUARY
1942
AireyNeave
342
NOTIFICATION OF THE DEATH OF ACTING
SQUADRON LEADER ERNEST MASON,
RAF, FEBRUARY
1942 345
RAID ON DIEPPE,
19
AUGUST
1942
Ross
Мито,
Canadian war
correspondent
346
THE TWATS IN THE OPS ROOM,
1942
Anon
351
CONTENTS
Xlii
HOLOCAUST:
THE JEWS ARE ROUNDED UP,
AMSTERDAM, 19 NOVEMBER 1942
Anne Frank 352
OFFICER SELECTION, BRITAIN,
1943
Rifeman
Alex Bowlby,
Rille Brigade
353
ONE MAN S WAR: AN
AMERICAN
AIRMAN S
LETTER,
1943
Sergeant
Carl
Goldman, USAAF
355
THE DAMBUSTERS RAID,
Ruhr Valley,
16
MAY
1943
Guy Gibson, RAF
355
SICILY:
AMERICAN
COUNTER-ATTACK
AT BIAZZA RIDGE,
9
JULY
1942
General James
M
ват,
505
Parachute Regimental Combat Team,
US 82nd Airborne Division
364
HOME FRONT: FIRESTORM IN HAMBURG,
27
JULY
1943
Else
Wendel,
Housewife
371
US BOMBERS RAID THE OIL REFINERIES AT
PLOESTI, RUMANIA,
1
AUGUST
1943
Captain John S. Young, USAAF
374
THE RESCUE OF MUSSOLINI FROM GRAN
SASSO,
12
SEPTEMBER
1943
Captain Otto Skorzeny,
Waffen
SS
379
THE LANDINGS AT SALERNO,
9
SEPTEMBER
1943
John Steinbeck, war correspondent
382
HOME FRONT: RACHEL THE RIVETER,
SAN DIEGO,
1943
Rachel Wray, hand riveter,
Consolidated Aircraft
385
WAITING, WAITING, WAITING :
THE LIFE OF A P.O.W., GERMANY,
1944
Sergeant Nell, Green Howards
388
A RESISTANCE GROUP BLOWS UP A TRAIN,
FRANCE,
1944
George Millar,
SOE
391
FLYING FOR THE FATHERLAND: A GERMAN
FIGHTER PILOT INTERCEPTS HEAVY
BOMBERS,
10-21
FEBRUARY
1944
Heinz Knoke,
Luftwaffe 392
COWARDICE,
CASSINO,
SPRING
1944
Howard
L
Bond,
US 36th Infantry Division
395
CASSINO:
THE END,
16-18
MAY
1944
Major Fred Majdalany,
Lancashire Fusiliers
HOME FRONT: PURE HELL FOR A GUY
NOT IN UNIFORM, CANADA,
1943
Anonymous
397
407
D-DAY: EMBARKATION,
4
JUNE
1944
Alan Moorehead, war correspondent
409
IKE S DAY BEFORE D-DAY, SHAEF ADVANCE
(NEAR PORTSMOUTH),
5
JUNE
1944
Captain Hariy
С
Butcher
410
D-DAY: A PARATROOPER LISTS HIS KIT,
WELFORD AERODROME,
5
JUNE
1944
Donald Burgett,
US 101st Airborne Division
413
D-DAY: THE AIRBORNE LANDINGS,
6
JUNE
1944
Major
Friedrich
Hayn,
Wehrmacht
Staff Officer
414
D-DAY: THE LANDINGS,
6
JUNE
1944
Lieutenant
HT
Bone,
East Yorkshire Regiment, Captain Joseph
Dawson, US
1st
Infantry Division
415
ONE MAN S WAR: A NORMANDY DIARY,
6
JUNE
1944-24
JUNE
1944
Corporal GE Hughes,
1st
Battalion,
Royal Hampshire Regiment
417
SNIPING, NORMANDY,
26
JUNE
1944
Ernie
Pyle,
war correspondent
419
BUZZ BOMBS ON KENT, JUNE
1944
Lionel King; Eight-year-old schoolboy
421
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF ADOLF
HITLER, EASTERN GERMANY,
20
JULY
1944
Heinrich Bucholz
423
GUERILLA AMBUSH IN CRETE, AUGUST
1944
W, Stanley Moss
423
FALAISE:
THE KILLING FIELD,
19
AUGUST
1944
Johnnie Johnson RAF
427
ARNHEM:
AT THE BRIDGE,
18-29
SEPTEMBER
1944
Lieutenant EM. Mackay,
1st
Airborne Division
429
PROSTITUTION, NAPLES,
4
OCTOBER
1944
Sergeant Norman Lewis,
Field Security Service
435
THE SUICIDE OF FIELD MARSHAL
ERWIN
ROMMEL, GERMANY.
14
OCTOBER
1944
Manfred Rommel
436
HOLOCAUST: SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ,
OCTOBER
1944
Primo Levi,
prisoner
440
THE FALL OF AACHEN,
17
SEPTEMBER
1944
George
Mucha,
war correspondent
447
THE US ARMY SLOGS UP ITALY, WINTER
1944
Ernie
Pyle,
war correspondent
448
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE: THE AFTERMATH.
JANUARY
1945
Martha Gellhom, war correspondent
452
XIV
CONTENTS
CROSSING THE GERMAN
BORDER,
28
FEBRUARY
1945
John Foley, British Tank Officer
460
ONE MAN S WAR: A G.I. FIGHTS HIS WAY INTO
GERMANY MARCH-APRIL
1945
Private
Chartes
Cavas,
417th Infantry
Regiment
461
A BOMB HITS THE PROPAGANDA MINISTRY,
BERLIN,
13
MARCH
1945
Joseph
Goebbels 463
IN DYING WE LIVE: LAST TESTAMENT OF A
DANISH ANTI-NAZI,
4
APRIL
1945
Seaman Kim Malthe-Bruun
464
ITALIAN PARTISANS TAKE THEIR REVENGE,
TRIESTE,
13
APRIL
1945
Geolirey Cox, British Eighth Army
465
HOLOCAUST: A REPORTER VISITS BELSEN,
19
APRIL
1945
Richard Dimbleby, BBC
467
THE GERMAN ARMY SURRENDERS,
LÜNEBERG
HEATH,
3
MAY
1945
Field Marshal Montgomery
468
VICTORY IN EUROPE CELEBRATIONS,
8
MAY
1945
Molile Panter-Downes,
London
471
Part
VII
The Road to Berlin: The Eastern Front,
February 1943-May
1945
INTRODUCTION
481
CONCENTRATED SLAUGHTER : A RUSSIAN
CAVALRY AND TANK ATTACK, KORSUN,
UKRAINE,
17
FEBRUARY
1943
Major Kampov, Red Army
Oficer
482
CITADEL: TANK
ВАШЕ
AT KURSK,
4
JULY
1943
General
von Mellenthin, Wehrmacht 484
WOUNDED
SS
TROOPS, CHERKASSY,
FEBRUARY
1944
Leon Degrelle,
Legion
Wallonie
487
ONE MAN S WAR: AN UNFORTUNATE DAY ON THE
EASTERN FRONT, JULY
1944
Lieutenant Zhuravlev Alexander Grigoryevlch,
Red Army
■ 489
WARSAW UPRISING: A PARTISAN GROUP IS
TRAPPED IN THE SEWERS,
26
SEPTEMBER
1944
Anonymous lighter, Polish Home Army
490
GERMANS FLEEING THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE,
DANZIG,
9
MARCH
1945
Hans Gliewe, schoolboy
493
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG:
HITLER PLANS THE
DESTRUCTION OF GERMANY,
18
MARCH
1945
Colonel-General Heinz Guderian,
Chief of the General Staff
A MEETING WITH HITLER, APRIL
1945
Gerhardt Boldt, Wehrmacht
479
498
500
THE
ВАШЕ
OF BERLIN: SOVIET GUNS OPEN
FIRE,
20
APRIL
1945
Colonel-General Chuikov, Eighth
Guards Army
502
THE BATTLE OF BERLIN,
24
APRIL-1 MAY
1945
Anonymous German Staff Officer
502
THE FALL OF BERLIN: A CITIZEN S VIEW,
26
APRIL-1MAY
1945
Claus Fuhrman,
Berliner
505
BERLIN:
SS
FANATICS HOLD OUT AT THE
REICHSTAG,
28
APRIL-1 MAY
1945
Anonymous German soldier
510
ORDER OF THE DAY NO.
369, 9
MAY
1945
Stalin, Marshal of the Soviet Union
512
Part
VIII
Setting Sun:
The War in the Pacific, July 1942-September
1945
513
515
INTRODUCTION
THE DEFENCE OF HENDERSON FIELD,
GUADALCANAL,
24
OCTOBER
1942
Sergeant Mitchell Paige, USMC
THE KOKODA TRAIL, NEW GUINEA,
SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER
1942
George H.
Johnsion, War
Correspondent
521
517
BEHIND ENEMY LINES: DEATH OF A FRIEND, BURMA,
3
APRIL
1943
Bernard Fergusson, Commander
No.
5
Column Chlndlts
524
AN ALLIED INTELLIGENCE OFFICER IS
EXECUTED BY THE JAPANESE, NEW GUINEA,
29
MARCH
1943
Anonymous
Јарзпеѕв
soldler 526
CONTENTS
XV
HOME FRONT: INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE
AMERICANS,
1943
Imo
Matsushita
528
ONE FOR EVERY SLEEPER : FORCED LABOUR
ON THE BURMA-SIAM RAILWAY,
MAY
1943
Jeffrey English, British POW
530
A POSTCARD FROM A POW,
1943
Thomas
Smithson,
British Army
535
A MARINE CORPS PILOT IS SHOT DOWN,
BOUGAINVILLE,
3
JANUARY
1944
Gregory Boyington, VMF-214
Squadron, USMC
535
ONE MAN S WAR: THE ARAKAN FRONT,
BURMA, JANUARY-FEBRUARY
1944
Troop-Sergeant
Clive
Branson,
Royal
Armourea
Corps
538
THE SKIRMISH AT ADMIN BOX, BURMA,
8
FEBRUARY
1944
Brigadier Geoffrey
С
Evans, 9th
Brigade, 5th Division
540
CLOSE-QUARTER FIGHTING, BURMA,
MARCH
1944
John Masters, Long Range Penetration
Unit
(Chindas)
545
AN ENGLISH OFFICER ESCAPES THE
JAPANESE, MALAYA, MAY
1944
Colonel F. Spencer Chapman,
5th Seaforth Highlanders
548
LIFE IN A JAPANESE POW CAMP,
JUNE 1944-AUGUST
1945
Anton
Bílek, USAAF
549
BAMBOO, DYSENTERY, LEECHES: A MARAUDER
ON THE JUNGLE PATH, JULY
1944
Charlton Ogbum,
5307th Composite Unit
■ 552
ASSAULT INTO HELL: A MARINE LANDS
ON PELELIU,
15
SEPTEMBER
1944
Eugene B. Sledge,
1st
Marine Division,
USMC
555
ONE MAN S WAR: A MARINE WRITES HOME,
25
SEPTEMBER
1944
Lieutenant Richard Kennard,
5th Regiment,
1st
Marine Division
559
MARINES STORM A PILLBOX, NGESEBUS,
28
SEPTEMBER
1944
Eugene B. Sledge,
1st
Marine Division,
USMC
563
KAMIKAZE ATTACKS, LEYTE GULF,
27
NOVEMBER
1944
Seaman First Class, James J. Fahey,
US Navy
568
A FRIGHTFUL FATE : JAPANESE SOLDIERS
HOLD OUT IN THE MANGROVE SWAMPS
OF RAMREE, BURMA,
17
JANUARY-
22
FEBRUARY
1945
Captain Eric Bush RN,
SNO
Advanced
Force W
544
THE TUNNELS OF IWO JIMA, FEBRUARY-
MARCH
1945
USMC Correspondents
546
THE DAGGER DIVISION TAKES
MANDALAY,
20
MARCH
1945
John Masters,
Chindii
571
OKINAWA: AN INFANTRYMAN S NIGHTMARE,
APRIL
1945
John Garcia, 7th Division US Infantry
573
I SHALL FALL LIKE A BLOSSOM FROM
A RADIANT CHERRY TREE : A
KAMIKAZE PILOT S
UST
LETTER, MAY
1945
Flying Petty Officer First Class Isao
Matsuo, Special Attack Corps
574
THE ALLIES DECIDE TO DROP THE
ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN, POTSDAM,
25
JULY
1945
President Harry S. Truman
575
HIROSHIMA,
6
AUGUST
1945
Colonel Tibbels, USAAF
576
NAGASAKI,
9
AUGUST
1945
Tatsuichiro Akizuki
578
Epilogue: The Execution of Nazi War Criminals
at Nuremberg,
1946
Sources and Acknowledgments
583
595
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