WW II War Stories

Millions of people were involved in World War II every day from the mid-1930s to the end in September 1945 creating more stories than will ever be known or retold. In addition to the major battles and campaigns of World War II, this section of the Olive-Drab.com history of World War II recounts stories, incidents, facts, and experiences worth understanding and remembering but that are not covered in depth elsewhere on Olive-Drab.com. The Olive-Drab.com page of World War II Maps will be helpful to follow the action.

Rangers climbing the vertical cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, four miles west of Omaha Beach, the main American landing area on D-Day, 6 June 1944.

Today in WW II: 23 May 1943 Adm. Döntiz, commander of the German Navy, calls off the Battle of the Atlantic, recognizing that the U-boat is no longer an effective weapon. More ↓

23 May 1944 Allied breakout from Anzio beachhead.
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Directory of World War II War Stories

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1942: Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
1942: Carlson's Makin Raid
1942: Raid on Dieppe
1942: Bataan Death March
1942: Five Sullivan Brothers
1943: Death of Yamamoto
1943: PT-109
1943: Ploesti Raid
1944: Rangers at Pointe du Hoc
1944: Red Ball Express
1944: Bastogne, "Nuts!"
1944: Warsaw Uprising
1944: Operation Valkyrie (Attempt on Hitler's Life)
1945: Great Raid on Cabanatuan
1945: Tokyo Fire Raids
1945: Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
1945: USS Barb Bags a Train
Bob Hope's USO Tours
Destroying the German Atomic Program in Norway
The Coastwatchers
The Jedburghs
The Tuskegee Airmen
The Navaho Code Talkers
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

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