World War II

GREETINGS

I’M THE NEW GUY HERE, having inherited the magazine from Karen Jensen, who did a superlative job as editor for many years. (Senior editor Larry Porges made a smooth transition possible by shepherding the Winter 2023 issue into print.) This new position gave me the excuse to dust off some treasured volumes from

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Moving On Up
Norman Lear was in his third semester at Boston’s Emerson College when he heard about the Pearl Harbor attack. He decided to enlist, but his parents talked him out of it. Finally he joined the Army Air Forces without telling them. He wanted to be a p
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Strangers On A Plane
AT DUSK ON FEBRUA RY 22, 1943, Pan American Airways’ Yankee Clipper began its long descent to the Tagus River in Lisbon, Portugal. A few moments later, as raindrops pelted the windscreen and lightning lit up the sky, the tip of the left wing caught t
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Overrated General
MACARTHUR RECONSIDERED General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander By James Ellman. 296 pp. Stackpole Books, 2023. $29.95 GENERAL DOUGLAS MacArthur remains a fascinating and confounding figure. Just as he always seemed to occupy the limelight

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