Jay Rencher Displayed incredible Heroism clearing obstacles from Utah Beach.   More »

While increasingly desperate German defenders attempted to escape, Allied forces grimly tightened the noose around their necks at Falaise Pocket.   More »

In the midst of escalating numbers of World War 2 casualties, American soldiers followed a medical care echelon system initially devised for European battlefields.   More »

During the now-historic Operation Varsity, Canadian paratroopers attempted to pierce the Rhine in March 1945.   More »

The Top-Secret Radar Technology Arrived Just in Time for the RAF to Fend off the Luftwaffe in 1940.   More »

In 2008, Tom Sanders embarked on an ambitious project to photograph World War II veterans. You can find his work at www.tomsandersphoto.com.   More »

The American airmen that Princess Ecaterina Caradja saved from the Germans called her the “Angel of Ploesti,” and for good reason.   More »

By Maureen Holtz
During World War II, American women flocked to be a part of the war effort. They served as factory workers, government agency clerks, WAVES or WAACS, and artists copying propaganda posters. Many young women found that the American Red Cross offered non-nurses a unique opportunity. Jill Pitts Knappenberger   More »

By Steve Ossad

Afew months after the Normandy campaign and with other fronts competing for the American public’s attention, Lt. Col. S.L.A. “Slam” Marshall, a hard-living Chicago newspaperman, World War I veteran, and deputy historian in the European Theater, hand carried the first of the War Departmemt campaign publications, Omaha Beachhead,to   More »

Jim White survived the ill-fated attempted Rapido River crossing in Italy and endured 14 months as a prisoner of war.   More »