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Mag: Aviation History Personalities

American Aviators Aloft at Pearl Harbor

Two heroic American aviators led a spirited defense against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Mag: World War II Featured

The Man Who Knew No Fear: General Lucian K. Truscott

Lucian K. Truscott Jr. had a voice like gravel, a brain for combat, and a heartfelt grasp of the soldiering life

World War II News

The Best of WWII on YouTube

The best World War II videos on the web.

World War II News

WWII Dispatches, April 2010

News briefs from the March/April 2010 issue of World War II magazine.

World War II Conversations

Mag: World War II Hero

Conversation with Dick Cole, the Last of the Doolittle Raiders

A conversation with Dick Cole who copiloted the lead B-25 with Doolittle in the famous 1942 raid...

World War II Conversations

Conversation with Brigitte Schreiber Hayward

Brigitte Schreiber spent her childhood growing up in Nazi Germany along with her siblings and parents, and recalls her harrowing experiences.

World War II Weapons Manual

World War II Weapons Manual

Weapons Manual: Finland’s Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun

World War II's senior editor Paraag Shukla gives us a closer look at Finland's rugged and accurate Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun

Mag: World War II Featured

Weapons Manual: Night Stalker-The Soviet’s U-2 biplane

World War II's senior editor Paraag Shukla explores the Soviet Union's Polikarpov U-2 biplane, the Night Stalker—used in night raids that terrorized Germans

World War II Time Travel

Mag: World War II Featured

Time Travel: the Japanese attack at Fort Stevens, Oregon

In 1942, Fort Stevens, Oregon became the site of a surprise Japanese submarine attack—the first on a mainland U.S military base during the war

Mag: World War II Featured

Time Travel: Salvation at Dunkirk

Award-winning travel writer James Ullrich revisits a wartime scene of salvation in Dunkirk, France

World War II War Letters

A Forward Artillery Observer Records His Darkest Experiences—So Far

World War II War Letters

A German Jew in the U.S. Army Confronts Dachau

Fritz Schnaittacher came face to face with the horror he escaped from.

Fire for Effect

Mag: World War II Hero

Fire for Effect: A Man of No Seasons-Walther von Seydlitz

Wehrmacht leader Walther von Seydlitz marched to the beat of his own drum—a trait that, oddly enough, would earn him no friends.

Mag: World War II Events

Fire For Effect: Off the Map

National World War II Museum's senior historian Robert M. Citino examines the hard lessons learned from the forgotten battle of the Aleutian Islands

World War II Web Extras

World War II Web Extras

Nazi Saboteurs at the Supreme Court

When Germany sent agents to wreak havoc in America, their case went straight to the top

World War II Web Extras

German POWs: Enemies In Our Midst

Did they set up camp near your home town?

Battle Films

Mag: World War II Featured

‘The Imitation Game’ Sacrifices Truth for Emotion

The Academy Award-winning film downplays key historic details in the breaking of Germany’s Enigma code, yet still packs a powerful punch.

Mag: World War II Featured

Battle Films: Rommel (2012)

In 2012 film Rommel, the myth of the famous German general as an apolitical figure falls apart

Unknown Soldiers

The Traitor Who Inspired His Country

Hotzumi Ozaki, the only Japanese to be formally tried and hanged for treason during the war, became a role model for his countrymen.

Unknown Soldiers

The Army’s Dancing Master Sergeant

World War II Video Gallery

From the Vault of the U.S. National Archives

World War II Video Gallery

Stories from the Northwest

World War II Their Darkest Hour

A Soviet Strongman Reflects on the Art of Crushing Fear

How Stalin's policies meant the difference between life and death, and not in the way one might think

World War II Their Darkest Hour

A Kamikaze Who Lived to Tell the Tale

World War II Features

Mag: World War II Featured

How San Diego’s Balboa Park Helped Sick Vets Back On Their Feet

San Diego’s Balboa Park, lined with buildings filled with art, once hosted a massive World War II naval hospital for severely injured and sick servicemen

Mag: World War II Hero

“For You the War is Over”: WWII Pilot Captured by Germans Tells His Story

An injured Mustang pilot spends the final month of the war as a prisoner of the Germans

World War II Footlocker

World War II Footlocker

Footlocker: Army Strip Map from the 100th Infantry Division

A reader submits a rare, intact strip map marking the trail of a group of men of the 100th Infantry Division as they meander through Europe

Mag: World War II Featured

Footlocker: Undersea Mystery

In August 1945, Seaman First Class Louis C. Reynolds collected this Japanese garment off the surrendered sub I-14. Does its insignia reveal the name of the original owner?

World War II Reviews

Mag: World War II Featured

Review: The Myth Of Hitler’s Military Incompetence Examined in “The First Soldier”

Author and scholar Stephen G. Fritz reexamines the myth behind the portrayal of Hitler as a bumbling military officer

Mag: World War II Featured

Allied Forces’ Fight for Air Superiority in James Holland’s “Big Week”

In the Netherlands, the Allies battle the Luftwaffe for air power just days before D-Day in author James Holland's latest book

World War II Magazine

WWII Book Review: U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis

war

WWII Book Review: Hell Is Upon Us

Aviation History

WWII Book Review: The Blitzkrieg Legend

20th century

The Salamander: Bernard Freyberg

2nd division

New Zealand’s Unknown Warriors

Corregidor

Sailing into the Unknown

troops to the west

In the Eye of the Tempest

german

If You Die, You Die

5th platoon

Blood for Dignity

u.s

Admiral Leahy: U.S. Ambassador to Vichy

gun

The ‘Bloody Accurate’ Bren

Current Events

WWII Today- November 2006

marine corps

WWII Book Reviews: The Best of 2006

isom's plane

A Dubious Distinction at Kassel

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Reinhard Heydrich: A Devil With Many Faces

air power

Crossing the Rubicon

Mag: Aviation History Personalities

American Aviators Aloft at Pearl Harbor

Mag: World War II Featured

The Man Who Knew No Fear: General Lucian K. Truscott

World War II News

The Best of WWII on YouTube

World War II News

WWII Dispatches, April 2010

Mag: World War II Hero

Conversation with Dick Cole, the Last of the Doolittle Raiders

World War II Conversations

Conversation with Brigitte Schreiber Hayward

World War II Weapons Manual

Weapons Manual: Finland’s Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun

Mag: World War II Featured

Weapons Manual: Night Stalker-The Soviet’s U-2 biplane

Mag: World War II Featured

Time Travel: the Japanese attack at Fort Stevens, Oregon

Mag: World War II Featured

Time Travel: Salvation at Dunkirk

World War II War Letters

A Forward Artillery Observer Records His Darkest Experiences—So Far

World War II War Letters

A German Jew in the U.S. Army Confronts Dachau

Mag: World War II Hero

Fire for Effect: A Man of No Seasons-Walther von Seydlitz

Mag: World War II Events

Fire For Effect: Off the Map

World War II Web Extras

Nazi Saboteurs at the Supreme Court

World War II Web Extras

German POWs: Enemies In Our Midst

Mag: World War II Featured

‘The Imitation Game’ Sacrifices Truth for Emotion

Mag: World War II Featured

Battle Films: Rommel (2012)

Unknown Soldiers

The Traitor Who Inspired His Country

Unknown Soldiers

The Army’s Dancing Master Sergeant

World War II Video Gallery

From the Vault of the U.S. National Archives

World War II Video Gallery

Stories from the Northwest

World War II Their Darkest Hour

A Soviet Strongman Reflects on the Art of Crushing Fear

World War II Their Darkest Hour

A Kamikaze Who Lived to Tell the Tale