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PEARL HARBOR: SHOCKED AWAKE, PATROL WING 2 FIGHTS BACK
WWII
The War
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The Home Front
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The Peopl
AMERICA IN
SUB FULL OF
SECRETS
SAILORS RUSH TO SAVE
THE SINKING NAZI
U-505
LIVE FROM LONDON
Edward R. Murrow
Brings the Blitz
To US Radios
BOMBING 101
A B-24 PILOT TALKS SHOP
THE MAGIC THAT MOVED G.I. MAIL
Marauder in Shangri-La
A
Rosie’s Babysitter
April 2019
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WWII
The War
AM E RICA I N
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The People
April 2019, Volume Fourteen, Number Four
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14
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FEATURES
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MAIL CALL!
Nothing made the GIs’ day like letters and packages from home. But how did the post office
ever manage all those deliveries all over the world?
By Tom Harper Kelly
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BEYOND BATTLESHIP ROW
Japan started a war by bombing the US Pacific Fleet. But there was more infamy that morning of December 7, 1941, as planes pummeled
Oahu’s air bases. Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor was shocked awake.
By J. Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John F. Di Virgilio
22
ONE MIC AGAINST THE REICH
CBS Radio newsman Edward R. Murrow brought the ugly truth about Nazi aggression
to America’s living rooms direct from burning London.
By Roy Morris Jr.
28
THE SHARK-CATCHERS
Captain Daniel Gallery and his hunter-group were out to capture a Nazi submarine intact.
When
U-505
popped to the surface, they pounced.
By Phil Zimmer
2019 ANNUAL WWII TRAVEL PLANNER
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Museums, Tours, and Events
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Starting on Page 39
departments
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KILROY
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V-MAIL
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HOME FRONT: Rosie’s Babysitter
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PINUP: Simone Simon
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WAR STORIES
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I WAS THERE: A B-24 Pilot Talks Shop
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BOOKS AND MEDIA
60
THEATER OF WAR:
Alone We Fight
and
Air Strike
62
78 RPM: “He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings”
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FLASHBACK
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GIs: Welcome to Shangri-La
COVER SHOT:
Catching a German U-boat was quite a feat, but hanging onto it required a miracle. That’s what Captain Daniel Gallery of Task Group
22.3 expected from the sailors who boarded
U-505
off Africa on June 4, 1944. In this photo, boarders work to secure a towline while others try to
open the conning tower hatch. Safety lines were the only help against being washed overboard.
US NAVY
WWII
The War
AM E RICA I N
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KILROY
WAS HERE
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March-April 2019
Volume Fourteen • Number Four
www.AmericaInWWII.com
PUBLISHER
Is History History?
I
T TAKES SOME GUTS TO DECLARE
“
THE END OF HISTORY
.” The political scientist Francis
Fukuyama had them when he titled his 1992 book
The End of History and the Last
Man.
The idea behind this work published after the breakup of America’s old frenemy
the Soviet Union was that man’s ideological evolution had reached its conclusion with
the “universalization of Western liberal democracy.”
My mission here is much more modest than Fukuyama’s; the
history
I’m referring to is not
history itself, but rather the field of concentrated study. There long have been whisperings
of
that
history’s gradual demise, and you may have heard recently that one college, the
University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, was considering eliminating its history major.
Those of us who studied the liberal arts in college might have foreseen a move like this
decades ago. As the liberal arts lost favor and funding, business schools and professional
programs touted that their trainees were getting snapped up fast by companies promising
generous salaries. History and its kin were predictable targets of cancellation.
What if Wisconsin follows through on its proposal? Should an institution of higher
education that’s sacrificed its history major to the myopic gods of finance even be
allowed to call itself a college? You may have heard that majors like history have been
made obsolete by the Internet, with its instantly accessible stockpile of information.
But Googled information is not the same as knowledge. Knowledge is more than names,
dates, places, and events. Deeper understanding is the goal, deeper understanding of
humanity and the world. Deeper understanding is not available on demand from Alexa.
This is not to say the study of history, or other liberal arts, is magic. Deep understanding
is not a guaranteed result, and the values that guide peoples’ actions can have sur-
prisingly twisted roots. Joseph Goebbels studied history. Dr. Josef Mengele focused
on philosophy as an undergrad. Josef Stalin attended a Russian Orthodox seminary.
The many hours that these dark giants whose footsteps shook the world spent reading,
pondering, and writing didn’t keep them from, respectively, systematically enticing a
citizenry to support a Nazi agenda of violent empire expansion and genocide, carrying
out deadly experiments on defenseless concentration camp prisoners and choosing
which would go to the gas chambers, and executing millions of fellow countrymen
for the sake of consolidating political power.
As Francis Fukuyama learned, predictions can be tricky, but I feel safe making this one:
short of the Biblical Armageddon, there will be no end of history—of history itself,
that is. There will be no miraculous, permanent manmade solution to humanity’s troubles.
There’s a decent chance that a history major would learn that lesson, along with the
lesson not to rush to conclusions like “the end of history.”
And, by the way, experts who track jobs data have figured out that history majors earn
more money than other college graduates. Even those of us in history-related careers—
especially
those of us in history-related careers—wouldn’t have guessed that one.
So it appears that even the more financially focused who walk among us, the MBAs
and other business students who influence so much of modern life, can see the value
in the study of history, an eminently practical value. That more than anything may be
what saves history.
James P. Kushlan, publisher@americainwwii.com
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