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A Marine’s Combat Journey
CMG 02313
THIRD ARMY
Panzer
WWII HISTORY
DECEMBER/JANUARY 2021
Volume 20, No. 1
Destruction
at Mairy
British
Attack
on Caen
BARBAROSSA
Hitler’s Road
to Disaster
Japanese Attacks
on the West Coast
DEC./JAN. 2021
+
HEROIC RAF PILOT, THE LANCASTER BOMBER,
AMERICA’S INTERNMENT CAMPS,
AND MORE!
RETAILER: DISPLAY UNTIL FEB 22
Contents
WWII
HISTORY
Columns
06 Editorial
Yuki Okinaga Hayakawa remains a symbol
of racial inequity in the United States.
08 Profile
Corporal Jack Edmondson earned Australia’s
first Victoria Cross of World War II in a terri-
ble hand-to-hand fight that cost him his life.
16 Ordnance
The Avro Lancaster bore the brunt of the RAF
bombing campaign against the Third Reich.
20 Insight
Hitler’s rationale for the invasion of the Soviet
Union had been expressed years earlier, but
the offensive was severely flawed.
26 Top Secret
Along with the United States, Canada and
many Latin American countries dealt with
detainees from Germany, Italy, and Japan
during World War II.
70 Books
December/January 2021
Corporal Frank Sisson fought with General
George S. Patton’s famed command during
the battles in France and beyond.
74 Simulation Gaming
Features
32 The “Tough ‘Ombres” of 90th ID Stand Tall at Mairy
The U.S. 90th Infantry Division soundly defeated a German Panzer Brigade at the
French village of Mairy.
By Christopher Miskimon
Enlisted
opens up a new avenue for first-per-
son WWII action, while
Commandos 2
finds
another home for its remaster.
A Marine’s Combat Journey
CMG 02313
THIRD ARMY
40 A Marine Scout’s War Journey
WWII HISTORY
DECEMBER/JANUARY 2021
Volume 20, No. 1
Panzer
Destruction
at Mairy
Sergeant Larry Kirby experienced combat on Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima and
survived to tell his remarkable story.
By Matt Broggie
British
Attack
on Caen
BARBAROSSA
48 Cowboy of the Royal Air Force
Wing Commander Howard Blatchford, a Canadian pilot with the RAF, gave his life
in a brief but eventful career during World War II.
By Neil Taylor
Hitler’s Road
to Disaster
Japanese Attacks
on the West Coast
DEC./JAN. 2021
Cover: A Marine fires
on a Japanese sniper
with his Thompson
machine gun. Marine
scout Larry Kirby pre-
ferred the Thompson.
See story page 40.
Photo: National
Archives
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HEROIC RAF PILOT, THE LANCASTER BOMBER,
AMERICA’S INTERNMENT CAMPS,
AND MORE!
RETAILER: DISPLAY UNTIL FEB 22
56 War on the West Coast
The Japanese harassed the West Coast of the United States on a regular basis during
the course of World War II.
By Glenn Barnett
62 Panzer Fury at Caen
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s attack on a key road network was met by
enough high-quality German armor to inflict heavy casualties, but the Allies never
shrank from the daunting task.
By Kelly Bell
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