‘That memory will just never, ever go away’: Hershel Williams Recalls Iwo Jima 75 Years On
HistoryNet interviews Iwo Jima veteran Hershel "Woody" Williams, the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the Pacific War.
Book Review: Return to the Reich
Eric Lichtblau relates the story of Fred Mayer, a German Jew who in 1945 parachuted into Austria at the head of a three-man OSS team
Book Review: The Women Who Flew for Hitler
British historian Clare Mulley profiles the Third Reich’s leading female pilots Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg
Strong Men vs. Strongmen: When American Athletes Try to Play Fair With Totalitarian Regimes
Jesse Owens won a coup in Hitler's Germany, but today's NBA stars kowtow to China
Dying FDR’s Right-Hand Man Ran the War
Admiral William Leahy was the acting commander in chief as the president's health failed
Samuel Fuller and The Big Red One
Samuel Fuller reinvented the American war movie with such gritty classics as The Steel Helmet, Fixed Bayonets, and The Big Red One.
Book Review: MacArthur’s Air Force
Bill Yenne examines how Douglas MacArthur effectively wielded airpower during from World War II through the Korean War
Ian Toll’s Third Volume, ‘Twilight of the Gods,’ Out Next Summer
The thrilling conclusion of Toll's Pacific War trilogy recounts the final and bloody last year of World War II in the region
How Navy Hero Dorie Miller’s Bravery Helped Fight Discrimination in the U.S. Military
Dorie Miller, the first American hero of World War II, helped clear the way for others by doing what he was not allowed to do
Remembering the Resistance Leader Who Infiltrated Auschwitz
Witold Pilecki spent two and a half years trying to sabotage the infamous camp from within
A Journalist’s Hunt For Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele
An ABC News correspondent recalls his hunt for the most notorious Nazi to evade capture after the war.
Roosevelt’s Right-Hand Man Was a Quiet Yet Powerful Force
A new biography illuminates Admiral William D. Leahy's role as FDR's chief of staff, adviser, and friend during World War II
This Week in History – Jesse Owens Sets Records, Annihilates Nazi Competition at the 1936 Olympics
In Berlin, on August 1, 1936, track star Jesse Owens won a record-breaking four Olympic gold medals, knocking down Hitler's dreams of Aryan victory
Artist Howard Cook’s Brush With Death in the South Pacific
An artist’s foxhole-level view of war during World War II.
Photos of Winston Churchill at War
The inexhaustible Churchill seemed to comprise many individuals—all of them determined to prevail
