World War II

Artifacts

[1]
Battle Flag of the Flying Fish [1]
U.S. Navy Museum

[2]
PT 309 [2]
National Museum of the Pacific War

[3]
Grumman FM-1 (F4F-4) Wildcat [3]
National Air and Space Museum

Stories

Recent

From the Archives

Churchill Offers Toil and Tears to FDR [4]

by John Lukacs [5]

The world-shaping relationship between these two giants got off to a rocky start

A Fateful Friendship [6]

by Stephen E. Ambrose [7]

Eisenhower dreamed of serving under Patton, but history reversed their roles. Their stormy association dramatically shaped the Allied assault on the Third Reich

Eavesdropping on the Rising Sun [8]

by Bernard A. Weisberger [9]

A young man from Queens jumps into the thick of World War II intelligence activities by translating secret Japanese messages

The Man of the Century [10]

by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. [11]

Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create

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The Naked Truth of Battle [12]

by James MacGregor Burns [13]

A preeminent author reports on his experience as one of America's first combat historians, among a handful of men who accompanied soldiers into the bloodiest battles to write history as it was being made

The Seventeenth Largest Army [14]

by Gene Smith [15]

The old Regular Army, part fairy tale and part dirty joke, was generally either ignored or disdained. But its people went about their work with a dogged humdrum gallantry—and when the storm broke, they helped save the world.

Sites

[16]
George C. Marshall Museum [16]
Lexington, Virginia

[17]
National World War II Museum [17]
New Orleans, Louisiana

[18]
USS Arizona Memorial [18]
Honolulu, HI

Links:
[1] http://www.americanheritage.com/content/battle-flag-flying-fish
[2] http://www.americanheritage.com/content/pt-boat
[3] http://www.americanheritage.com/content/grumman-fm-1-f4f-4-wildcat
[4] http://www.americanheritage.com/content/churchill-offers-toil-and-tears-fdr
[5] http://www.americanheritage.com/users/john-lukacs
[6] http://www.americanheritage.com/content/fateful-friendship
[7] http://www.americanheritage.com/users/stephen-e-ambrose
[8] http://www.americanheritage.com/content/eavesdropping-rising-sun
[9] http://www.americanheritage.com/users/bernard-a-weisberger
[10] http://www.americanheritage.com/node/58362
[11] http://www.americanheritage.com/users/arthur-schlesinger-jr
[12] http://www.americanheritage.com/content/naked-truth-battle
[13] http://www.americanheritage.com/users/james-macgregor-burns
[14] http://www.americanheritage.com/node/57801
[15] http://www.americanheritage.com/gene-smith
[16] http://www.americanheritage.com/node/20656?nid=20656
[17] http://www.americanheritage.com/node/21806?nid=21806
[18] http://www.americanheritage.com/node/21081?nid=21081