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AMERICA IN

WWII

August 2012 • Volume Eight • Number Two

F E A T U R E S

14 ARMED WITH A PAINTBRUSH

Army artist Ed Reep dodged bullets and bomb blasts to give

Americans back home a closeup look at the war. By Melissa Amateis Marsh

24 TO THE RHINE!

The Bulge was broken, but the Allies on Germany’s western edge weren’t out of the woods yet.

Now they had to fight their way to the mighty Rhine. By Éric Grenier

34 DRESS REHEARSAL FOR WAR

The time to act was near, and the US Army needed practice.

So 350,000 soldiers went into ‘battle’ in the Bayou State. By Michael Edwards

40 INFERNO IN PARADISE

A thousand soldiers, sailors, and civilians packed Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub

on November 28, 1942. By night’s end, half of them were dead. By Chuck Lyons

d e p a r t m e n t s

2 KILROY 4 V-MAIL 6 HOME FRONT: Hail Old Glory! 7 PINUP: Martha Vickers 8 THE FUNNIES: War Hawks

10 LANDINGS: The Lake Erie Flotilla 12 WAR STORIES 48 I WAS THERE: His and Her War

49, 57 FLASHBACKS 56 BOOKS AND MEDIA 60 THEATER OF WAR: A Yank in the RAF 62 78 RPM: Stan Kenton

63 WWII EVENTS 64 GIs: A Honeymoon Cut Short

COVER SHOT: Omar Bradley was a soldier’s general, a considerate leader known to give up his winter coat to a shivering private. He was

also humble and wise enough to listen to his lieutenants and was a master tactician. In early 1945, he would put those qualities to good use

in pushing the Nazi forces from the Ardennes back into the German heartland. NATIONAL ARCHIVES

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P OPULAR HISTORY MAGAZINES CAN BE DANGEROUS on the subject of war. There’s a ten-

dency to avoid the difficult and overlook the unsightly. War can then be too alluring.

Robert E. Lee understood: “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond

of it.” If the attraction is strong even as war is appearing before our eyes, it only grows

stronger after time has turned the disfigured bodies to dust, while granting immortality

to the moments of glory.

In the new book The Last Full Measure: How Soldiers Die in Battle , author Michael

Stephenson, a former editor for the Military Book Club, offers a corrective to the incli-

nation to ignore the worst of war. He reminds us of the central truth. “War is about many

things,” he writes, “but at its core it is about killing or getting killed.” Chapter by chapter

he takes us from ancient times to our own, stopping along the way to dedicate a full quar-

ter of his book to the deadliest war of all—World War II. By the time Japan surrendered,

roughly 16 million fighting men and women were dead. About 300,000 were American.

One particularly disturbing section covers WWII tanks. Tanks were what scared infantry-

men most, which in turn made the deadly machines a frequent target. They found them-

selves on the giving and receiving end of unspeakable devastation. A German on the Russian

front described a tank “ironing” the trench he was in. “And there it is again—the rattle

and the roaring as steel tank tracks grind squealing on their rollers…,” he wrote. “Frozen

blocks of dirt fall on to my back and half cover me. Will the monster bury me alive?”

Men inside tanks were protected by the heavy armor, but there were weak spots.

When the enemy found them, the result could be horrific. Stephenson writes of anti-tank

shells that “on impact, ‘squirted’ a molten jet of metal through a relatively small hole

in the tank’s armor into the interior, igniting ammunition and fuel and causing hideous

injury to the crew.” American tank commander Keith Douglas described the sight inside

an Italian tank in Africa that had been penetrated by one of those shells: “The crew

of the tank—for, I believe, these tanks did not hold more than two—were, so to speak,

distributed around the turret. At first it was difficult to work out how the limbs were

arranged. They lay in clumsy embrace, their white faces whiter, as those in the desert

always were, for the light powdering of dust on them. One with a six-inch hole in his

head, the whole skull smashed in behind the remains of an ear—the other covered with

his own and his friend’s blood….”

It’s a terrifying image, the sort that needs to appear in a publication like this one at least

on occasion. “To speak of war in any other fashion brings with it a sort of immorality,”

Stephenson quotes from the military historian Victor David Hanson. “Euphemism in

battle narrative or the omission of graphic killing altogether is a near criminal offense

of the military historian.”

Carl Zebrowski

Editor, America in WWII

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