World War II

World War II

Duking It Out On The Western Front

Get ready for some edge-of-your-seat gameplay

mortar boats

The Mortar-Equipped Landing Craft

People

The ‘Battle Baby’ Magazine Born in Tokyo

20th - 21st Century

Commands: French 2nd Armored Division

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WWII Letters from Readers- February 2006

Social History

WWII Letter from the Editor- February 2006

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WWII Book Review: Jagdgeschwader 301/302

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Britain’s Secret Guerrilla Army

Social History

World War II Archives

World War II Archives

American Aviators Aloft at Pearl Harbor

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

World War II Archives

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

World War II Conversations

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.

Mag: World War II Hero

Call of Duty WWII with Historian Marty Morgan

Sledgehammer Games' lead historian and technical adviser Marty Morgan dishes on Call of Duty: WWII and its impact beyond gaming

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

World War II Time Travel

Time Travel: In the Nazis’ Alpine Fortress

Travel writer Heidi Fuller-love explores the juxtaposition of Obersalzburg's alpine beauty and the German town's Nazi past

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

Mystery Date: Pacific War Edition

World War II War Letters

An American Missionary Describes ‘Beastly’ Atrocities in Nanking

A letter by Reverend James McCallum, written during the brutal beginning of Japanese occupation.

Fire for Effect

Mag: World War II Hero

Fire for Effect: Not Making This Up

"Who knows what else is out there?," writes Rob Citino, head historian of the National WWII Museum. In a war this scope in size, there's always a new story

World War II Features

Fire for Effect: Not Their Fight

In America, World War II is a historic event in which those who fought are remembered and honored. But in Italy, it's a war to forget

World War II Web Extras

Baptised by Fire: Images of Peleliu

World War II Web Extras

London Can Take It!: British Propaganda in the United States

British documentary films like London Can Take It! and Words for Battle helped prepare Americans to enter the war.

Battle Films

Battle Films

‘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.

Battle Films

Battle Films: Rommel (2012)

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

Unknown Soldiers

The Man Behind the Incredible, Nearly Inedible K Ration

Unknown Soldiers

The Hungarian Math Whiz Who Helped the C-47 Take Flight

World War II Video Gallery

From the Vault of the U.S. National Archives

World War II Video Gallery

World War II Their Darkest Hour

A Warm Welcome Turns Cold in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine

After the initial euphoria of their “liberation” from Soviet rule wore off, Ukrainians were destined to experience the Nazis as some of the cruelest conquerors in history.

World War II Features

Mag: World War II Featured

Conversation with Flying Ace Bud Anderson

Fighter pilot Colonel Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson, 96, is a triple ace, credited with 16.25 enemy kills in the skies over Europe.

Mag: Military History Featured

George H.W. Bush: A Nation Bids Farewell

Hearse, not horses, took former president to lie in state in the Capitol

World War II Footlocker

World War II Footlocker

Footlocker: Fight Fire with Fire

Curators at the National World War II Museum solve a reader's question about a mysterious helmet...

Mag: World War II Featured

Footlocker: In for a Dollar

Curators at the National World War II Museum solve a reader's question about a wartime banknote with names of battle places written on it

World War II Reviews

Mag: World War II Featured

Book Review: Asperger’s Children by Edith Sheffer

Historian Edith Sheffer’s delves into the horrors of Spiegelgrund, a children's hospital where a doctor named Hans Asperger focused his efforts on children whose “deviant behavior”mfailed to conform to the Nazi Aryan ideology.

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

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World War II

Traveling to Tulagi, the Site of a Deadly World War II Offensive

Paradise sometimes has a dark side.

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World War II

Why a Piece of North Carolina is Forever British

When the Battle of the Atlantic neared America's East Coast, a small group of British sailors came to help, with tragic results.

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Europe

Book Review: 1941

Andrew Nagorski focuses on the fateful year Adolf Hitler all but ensured the destruction of the Third Reich

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Aviation & Spaceflight

Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee: ‘Do While You Can’

Charles McGee never thought much of flying until he started training at Tuskegee. When he finally left the U.S. Air Force, he had 30 years and three wars behind him.

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