World War II Magazine has been published since the mid-1980s. It has become one of the better military and naval history magazines. This is the March 2005 issue and it contains the following articles:

1. 1st Naval Construction Battalion, by Peter Magoon. The 1st Naval  Construction Battalion (NCB) detachment known as the Bobcats, was commissioned on January 22, 1942, in Charleston, South Carolina. The unit's name came from the code name of the new advance base it would help establish on Bora Bora, in the French-owned Society Islands. This base would provide a vital link to keep shipping lanes open between Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand and serve as a base for future Allied operations.

2. One Man's War: Edward Vassar Stephenson . Edward Stephenson was determined to be a Marine. While a pharmacy student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he attended Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class (PLC) in 1935 and 1936 to earn an appointment as an officer. The Marines, however, discharged him in 1937 after a medical board found him medically unfit due to defective color perception and "under required chest measurement by 1 1/2 inches." He married in 1938 and moved to the small town of Madison, N.C. where he worked as a pharmacist.  Includes Photo.

3. Auschwitz and Synthetic Fuel, by Albert Mroz. Before Auschwitz became an infamous Nazi concentration camp it was known as Oswiecim (pronounced as Osh-vee-yeh-chim), a town of about some 30,000 in southwestern Poland. Includes photos.

4. American Tankers in North Burma, by Richard W. Hale. When the author had written in the past about the activities of the Mars Task Force in Burma during World War II, he had indicated that it and its predecessor, Merrill's Marauders, were the only American ground combat units on the mainland of Asia during the war. He has now realized that he was unfair to American in another organization, The First Provisional Chinese-American Tank Group. Includes photos.

5. Churchill's Guiding Hand, by Christopher C. Harmon. The British prime minister's deft handling of the ships of state ensured that the Allies endured the darkest moments of World War II ands were ready for victory when it finally came. Includes ohotos.

6.End of Toepfer's Odyssey:  An Interview with Rudi Toepfer. Three years as U-Boat engineering officer did little to prepare Rudi Toepfer for the Horrors he would experience during his country's death throes. Includes paintings and photos.

7. Slaughter at Ingelfingen, by Brian Kelly. The German defense of a small, unimportant hill in the final weeks of the war resonates to this day. Includes photos.

8. Into the Meat Grinder, by Charles A. Jones. Battalion commander Shelton Scales describes Iwo as a 'graveyard for the dead and hell for the living.' Like many veterans, he cannot explain why he survived and others perished. Includes photos and map.

9. Sulfur Island's Youngest Hero, by Daniel W. Homstadt. On Iwo Jima, Jack Lucas proved that youth and courage can go hand n hand. Includes photos.

10. Belgium's Benevolent Occupier, by Cara Saylor Polk. In the aftermath of World War II, noted German history expert, Marion Dougherty wrote a paper for the Nuremberg Commission that called General Alexander Freiherr von Falkenhausen the "first to fight fascsism." Despite this, the German military governor of Belgium and northern France from 1940 until 1944 remains a little-remembered figure in the series of plots carried out by anti-Nazi German officers to unseat Adolf Hitler and his murderous regime. Includes photos.

This 82 page (plus covers) magazine also includes and editorial, letters to the editor, current events about World War II today, book reviews and period advertisements of interest to readers of this magazine and others.

The magazine has been in storage and appears to be in very good condition. It has been read and is complete with no missing or lose pages. Its original binding is intact and undamaged. It looks as good today as it did when it cam as part of my husband's subscription in 2005.

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