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A group of unconventional young women groomed for OSS field work take on leeches, exploding toilets, and the finer points of propaganda warfare. ‘It is urgently requested that great care be given in the selection of female personnel for SEAC (Southeast Asia Command),” Lieutenant Commander Edmond Taylor, a young OSS intelligence officer, wrote in a …
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War Letters: A Navy Doctor Describes His Unusual Service in the Gobi DesertIN 1943, 23-YEAR-OLD New Yorker Henry J. Heimlich left medical school to enlist in the U.S. Navy, which sent him to China for the duration of the war. On September 13, 1945, he wro… Read MoreTheir Darkest Hour: All Too InhumanTHE JAPANESE assault on the Chinese is one of the least well- known facets of the Second World War. And yet that conflict was immense: At least 20 million Chinese died between 1937… Read MoreTime Travel: The Forgotten BattlefieldWHEN WE FINALLY reached Koror, the economic center of the Republic of Palau, we were very happy to be there; our flight from Los Angeles, with stops at Hawaii and Guam, had lasted … Read MoreForgotten Valor: Royce Special MissionAn accident of timing consigned a groundbreaking mission to the shadows. The San Antonio Rose II, steel propellers slashing the skies above the Celebes Sea, was hurtling toward hel… Read MoreHitler’s Harvard Man: Ernst HanfstaenglOn his way up, the Nazi leader had help from a source steeped in American culture. On a cold spring morning in 1906, a canoeist on the Charles River in Boston lost control in… Read More
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