WW2 Stories & Articles
Deep dives into the forgotten, the overlooked, and the deeply human.
Normandy & D-Day
The Last Letter From Pointe du Hoc
Staff Sergeant Lomell's story of scaling the cliffs and finding the missing guns
● Pointe du Hoc, Normandy Normandy & D-DayVoices From the Beaches
What veterans told their grandchildren — oral histories transcribed 2000-2015
● Omaha & Utah Beach, Normandy Normandy & D-DayThe Girl With the Blue Ribbon on Utah Beach
The civilian who walked toward the Americans on D-Day morning
● Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy Forgotten HeroesThe Hacksaw Ridge Story
How one medic saved 75 men without ever touching a weapon
● Okinawa, Pacific Theater Amazing True StoriesErnie Pyle's Private Notebook
The war correspondent's unpublished pages — the stories he couldn't print
● Various locations, European and Pacific theaters Bizarre & UnknownThe Ghost Army of the Pacific
Hollywood special effects artists who fooled the Japanese with plywood and smoke
● Pacific Theater Holocaust & ResistanceThe Children of the Irena Sendler Jars
How 2,500 names survived in glass jars buried under an apple tree
● Warsaw, Poland