World War II Chapters

With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.

Rosenthal's photograph of Mt. Suribachi is famous, and survivors of the flag-raising return to the US to raise money for the war effort.

The Nazis swear secrecy and follow a strict set of rules.

Since the time of Ulysses, the Greek island of Cephalonia has a rich history of folk tales, tragedies, artifacts and winemaking.

Tania Chernova is a Russian-American who comes to Russia to learn how to be a sniper and help defeat the Germans.

Zaitsev trains Tania Chernova, a female Russian-American, who seeks revenge against the Germans.

Disaster descended on Norway when the Nazis invaded, then occupied, the beautiful country for five years, beginning on April 9, 1940. This image depic...

In November of 1989, the people of Berlin tear down a wall which divides their city into East and West. Two years earlier, President Reagan leads the ...

Biking in Norway isn't exactly easy. In this image, maintained by the National Library of Norway, we see "4 unidentified men on bikes in Norway photog...

Hitlers reign WWII, but ends in defeat and Hitlers suicide.

The Tuskegee airmen in WWII fly mission as the 99th Pursuit Squad.

Eight hundred US ships sail to Iwo Jima; they will first fire guns at the island, and then land over 70,000 Marines to capture it.

After the surrender of Bataan, the Japanese force soldiers on a death march.

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