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Five out of every six men serving in WWII never saw combat, serving instead in the vast support services. But the men...

Of all the assignments a serviceman might find himself undertaking in WWII, flying seemed to offer the greatest promi...

A WWII infantryman was engaged in combat for an hour each day on average, but he fought the environment around the cl...

WWII veterans describe their brief interludes of "everyday" life while at the front, with intimate films from archive...

For the sailors who fought in World War II, combat at sea differed radically from any previous conflict. The jobs the...

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As WWII raged across Europe and the Pacific, one branch of the U.S. military went quietly about its business, moving ...

The millions of combatants in the various armed services of WWII bore the brunt of the devastating war, but the civil...

Even as WWII raged on, another, more desperate, battle was being waged just behind the front lines...a battle to save...

For Allied servicemen, the last year of WWII proved the most difficult. Though victory was nearly assured, some of th...

After the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. emerged as leader of the free world. In the ...

WWII was the first fully mechanized war--with soldiers in tanks and other armored vehicles pounding across a lethal, ...

WWII's unsung heroes, combat engineers paved the way to victory in every theater of operations. From Navy Seabees who...

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Continuing the epic journey into the depths of WWII, our award-winning all-color series returns to recount stories ...