Elizabeth Richardson, a Red Cross volunteer who worked as a Clubmobile hostess, provided a touch of home to American soldiers in England and France. It required both physical endurance and the skills of a trained counselor.
They ran the gauntlet of the most heavily defended air space in the world to deal a death blow to Germany's aircraft industry.
At a time when the B-17's flew with little or no fighter escort, and the German Luftwaffe had not yet been all but chased from the sky, the 8th Air Force launched a raid on the ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt, Germany. The result is a story that is at once tragic and heroic.
Jean Moulin's story remains full of unanswered questions, the truth of his life being far more complicated than the legend of him that grew after the war.
In his own time and in the years immediately after the war Rommel's reputation as a great and chivalrous commander grew to the point where it took on almost legendary proportions, and the legend is still with us today.
A vivid picture of the suffering of the island of Malta and its population during one of the longest sieges in history
Whether they came from Sioux Falls or the Bronx, over half a million Jews entered the US armed forces during the Second World War.
General Rose, one of the greatest, most decorated battlefield Armor commanders in WWII, was tragically killed when surrounded by and captured by German troops.
The "forgotten" story of the tragic deaths of hundreds of US servicemen off the coast of England during rehearsals for the D-day invasion.
The brief but violent campaign to prevent the British from exerting control of the coastline of neutral Norway, while still fine-tuning his plans against France.
The word "Quisling" has been used as a synonym for "traitor" or "treachery," thanks to the Norwegian army officer who eagerly sided with the Nazis on the first day of Norway's entry into the Second World War.
The ghosts of the European theater in World War II were members of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops who worked to deceive the Germans on the battlefield.
Meticulously feeding misinformation to Axis intelligence, the Allies employed unprecedented methods and practiced the most successful military deception ever seen.
From the Battle of Midway until the last German code was broken in January 1945, this is an astonishing epic of a war that was won not simply by brute strength but also by reading the enemy's intentions.
No bomb group in WWII lost as many aircraft and crew members in a three month period.
Although Austrians comprised only 8 percent of the population of Hitler's Reich, they made up 14 percent of SS members and 40 percent of those involved in the Nazis' killing operations.
To the Allies, the elite force of German submariners was embarking on a mission of unequivocal evil.
Captured by the Japanese soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam was retaken in 1944, but not easily.
For a Japanese soldier to choose not to surrender, but go into hiding and become a holdout, meant deprivation, hardship and shame, which for some lasted 10 to 30 years.