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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Gilberton
Title: Classics Illustrated Special Issue
Page Count: 100
Genre: War
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 0.35 USD
Cover Date: January 1962
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Country: United States
Germany invades Northern Europe and France. The Battle of Dunkirk saves over 300,000 soldiers in nine days.; The defeat of Germany and Italy in North Africa.; Japan attacks China. They then attack the United States at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into the war. General MacArthur leaves the Philippines, vowing to return, while the soldiers captured there are forced on the Bataan death march.; The battle of Sicily and Italy.; The Allies return to the Philippines in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and destroy most of the remaining Japanese navy.; Hitler's rise to power.; Italy invades Greece with Germany helping. Then Germany invades Russia but is stopped on the outskirts of Moscow by the Russian winter.; The final invasion of Germany, including the taking of the Remagen bridge and the deaths of both Mussolini and Hitler.; The invasion of Poland and the start of WWII.; The battle for Stalingrad.; Germany wages an air war against Britain.; The battle of Guadalcanal.; The Nazi atrocities of the concentration camps.; The D-Day invasion.; The Battle of the Bulge is detailed.; Kamikaze pilots are used against the American fleet. Atomic weapons are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and finally bring an end to WWII.; The first war crimes trials are held at the end of World War II.; Benito Mussolini's rise to power and Italy's invasion of Ethiopia.; Danish resistance fighters attack a factory making parts for German rockets.; The story of the famous Doolittle raid on the Japanese homeland.; Attacks on naval shipping by German U-Boats.; The history of the battleship Bismarck and the use of packs of U-Boats to sink Allied shipping.; Short biographies of the three leaders of the Allies.; The battles of the Coral Sea and Midway.; The battle for the island Tarawa.; Short biographies of the three main commanders in the South Pacific.; The Nazi atrocities of Lidice and the Warsaw Ghetto.; Short biographies of these three leaders.; Details on the bombing of Germany with block-buster bombs and Germany's use of Buzz-Bombs on England.; Brief biographies of three war leaders.; The Burma Road and other supply routes for the Allies. The Flying Tigers continue their missions against the Japanese.; Short biographies of three war leaders.; The taking of the islands Iwo Jima and Okinawa.