Second World War

James Claude Beasley tells his personal story of service in the US Navy during World War II. Born in 1924 he was a typical teenager in the 1940s, a...

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. ...

During World War II, Guam was the only American territory where Japan administered the occupied local people. Organic integration was the purpos...

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable...

During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces. After their victory on Guada...

Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghet...

The award of a military decoration does not define valor--it only recognizes it. Many acts of notable courage and self-sacrifice occur on the ba...

Both before and during World War II, the Nazis curtailed the rights of Jewish and communist doctors living in countries they controlled. Some of th...

Take charge of Operation Barbarossa and drive towards Moscow or command the steadfast defenders of the Soviet Union. From the early battles for Len...

The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with h...

The role of Americans in the two world wars is well known, but with a glaring exception--one that reveals a little-known aspect of the common hi...

More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite acts of heroism and commendations, they were subject to bigot...

North Carolina did more than its part during World War II. This Southern state trained more troops than any other state in the nation. Can one s...

Although World War II began as a war in Europe, many in the United States, foreseeing the inevitable, began to prepare for war, putting no faith in...

U.S. Navy Supply Corps Ensign Ross Hofmann had no idea what was in store for him when he arrived at Cavite Naval Base in October 1941. Two months l...

Having flunked out of college in the fall of 1965, the author enlisted in the U.S. Army. After basic training he was assigned to Officer Candida...

On October 27, 1943, a force of New Zealanders and Americans invaded the Treasury Islands in the South Pacific, retaking them from their Japanese o...

The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W. McBride, Sr., was just a young man trying to work and return to coll...

This firsthand account, never before published in English, details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander, in which T...

Many nations played a role as belligerents on the Allied side in World War II. Many were in the thick of combat and made grave national sacrific...

Sergeant Bernard T. FitzPatrick endured the long road to Japanese prisoner of war camps, an event known thereafter as the Bataan Death March. In Ja...

During 1945, the author found herself in the monsoon-drenched jungles of Assam, caring for soldiers in the China-Burma-India theater of war. Not...

For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded. The prev...