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Normandy 1944 - Eyewitness accounts

Tragedy in Oslo

The Pacific War in 1944

Pacific Fleet gathers for new landing

Normandy in 1944

Allied air power contains Germans

Prisoners of War in 1944

War in 'Christmas card country'

The Holocaust in 1944

High morale key to Airborne success

The Eastern Front in 1944

Churchill arrives in a war zone

Christmas day in a frozen foxhole

V1 launch planes ambushed

Eisenhower under personal threat

'Blood and Steel 3'

"Nuts" to surrender

Lone Infantryman v Panzers

Captured in the Ardennes

Screaming Eagles rushed to Bastogne

Facing the 12th SS 'Hitlerjugend'

Massacre at Malmedy

Surprise attack in the Ardennes

The Americans and Germans at Bastogne

Hell continues for Oryoku Maru POWs

POWs endure hell on the Oryoku Maru

New arrivals in Sachsenhausen

Hitler - War 'a test of endurance'

A surgeon on the front line

Terror of the Kempeitai

Outnumbered infantry attack tanks

'A GI in the Ardennes'

Patton's Prayer

‘Street Fighting: Schiller Strasse Style’

British troops 'maintain order'

The end of the Sonderkommando

Nightmare at 30,000 feet

Last parade of the Home Guard

Disaster over Germany

Bombing Germany in 1944

Dead tired on the Front Line

Berlin - the international city

Prisoner of the Japanese

Hitler orders fight to the end

Facing a kamikaze attack

The watch on the Roer

Woolworths obliterated

'Hitler’s Wolfsschanze'

Germans youths drafted

The horrors of Vught

Escape from a flooded submarine

USS Sealion sinks Kongo

US infantrymen become 'killers'

US Army's ordeal in the Hurtgen Forest

Bully beef sandwiches and chocolate

Captured Memories 1930-1945

Rescued from the Pacific

Heavy bombers support US Army

The misery of the Front line

Rain, Mud and Mules

GIs prepare for a patrol

The end of the Tirpitz

German industry collapsing

'Invading Hitler's Europe'

USS Mount Hood explodes

Mines menace Allied infantry

Patton renews attack on Metz

USAAF Lightnings vs Soviet Yaks

"Black Monday" in Gelsenkirchen

Buffalos sneak into Middelburg

Prisoner of the Russians

'Panzer Leader'

A Small Act of Resistance

Home Leave in Germany

Commando assault at dawn

Cologne bombed again

Alone in burnt-out Warsaw

US POWs uncover a mole

Arrival in Auschwitz

The Battle of Leyte Gulf

Wounded and on the run

Horror aboard USS Suwannee

The Loss of the USS Tang

USS Princetown hit

Battleship Yamato's lucky escape

A cog in the US war machine

Japanese begin 'kamikaze' attacks

Panzer Divison 'Hermann Goring'

"I have returned"

Into the woods in Germany

USAAF disaster over England

Street warfare in Aachen

Red Army under pressure to attack

Random death on the front line

The death of Rommel

'Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front'

Nazis crackdown on dissent

An Ace in a Day

Home Army fighters now POWs

Snipers hold out on Peleliu

Churchill at the Kremlin

Mud and rain returns to Italy

The Mighty Eighth returns to Merseburg

'The Last German Victory'

Casualties mount in Italy

A second silver star in three days

Italian civilians struggle to survive

German defences stiffen

Warsaw - after the battle

Seizing a Prisoner

Warsaw Uprising Ends

The Kassel Raid, 27th September 1944

The war must go on

House to house fighting in Italy

The Kassel Raid Disaster

Mengele plays God in Auschwitz

Arnhem - the end

Patton confounded at Metz

Poles join the battle in Oosterbeek

The Shrinking Perimeter

Oosterbeek - still the fight goes on

Besieged paratroopers fight on

The 82nd Airborne across the Waal

A desperate battle for survival

A deadly reception in Arnhem

Operation Market Garden

The assault on Bloody Nose Ridge

'Aspects of Arnhem'

The Marines at Peleliu

Warsaw - the fight goes on

Executed at Dachau

US submarines torpedo POWs

US Army enters Germany

Nazis lie to Germans and the world

The grim reality of war

'Hitler's Revenge Weapons'

First Ballistic Missile attacks

Mopping up the Germans

A sodden day on the Front Line

Rescued by the Resistance

The Holocaust photographed

Belgians go 'raving mad'

George H.W. Bush shot down

'Normandy's Nightmare War'

'The Great Swan'

Civilians suffer in Warsaw

Assaulting the Gothic Line

Germans smashed at Montemilar

Over the Seine

'Friendly Fire' Disaster

US Airmen beaten to death

'Warsaw 1944'

De Gaulle builds a myth

Paris in Turmoil

The British breakout begins

Uprising in Paris

Poles appeal for assistance

Polish armour holds SS

Fighter bombers join rout

'The Killing Fields of Provence'

Canadians halt German escape

'Festung' St Malo surrenders

Welch Regiment attacks

The second D-Day in France

Two Bogeys at Dawn

Married in Burning Warsaw

Experimental drone disaster

Secret Service against the Nazi Regime

'Unbelievable' horror of Majanek

120th Infantry hold onto Hill 314

Infantry attack into the bocage

Tank attack into the bocage

German counter-attack at Mortain

US breakout continues

Massacre in Warsaw

'12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer'

Bombing raid on V1 site

Close encounter with Panzers

Popular Uprising in Warsaw

Warsaw Uprising Begins

Night surface attack

Operation Bluecoat

Patton takes command

'The Germans in Normandy'

Heavy flak over Merseburg

Lying low with the French

Marines fight off Banzai charge

Germans retreat from Poland

Bombers join US land battle

Final murders at Treblinka

Hunted by the Wehrmacht

'The SAS in Occupied France'

US Marines assault Guam

Hitler survives assassination attempt

Last stand in St Lo

Determination sinks U-Boat

Red Army reaches the Border

Are the Allies too cautious?

Rommel predicts Normandy defeat

'Kamikaze'

Starving Wehrmacht flees west

Sherman tanks in Italy

A Machine gunner in Normandy

Suicidal Japanese attacks

Starving Japanese now Retreat

The 'Culin hedgecutter'

The Battle for Caen

'Hill 112' - a blow by blow account

Panzers cornered in Russia

Typhoon tank busters over Normandy

Gunfire over German foxholes

The 508th PIR's bloody 4th July

Montgomery remains confident

Surviving a Japanese atrocity

Prisoner snatch at night

'Hitler's Paratroopers in Normandy'

Bombers support tank attack

The perilous life of a POW

'Everyman for himself'

They fought for Hitler

Scottish troops attack Waffen SS

Night tank attack

The advance into Cherbourg

'The Devil's Own Luck'

Heroism and Self-sacrifice

Operation Bagration

Frontline life in Normandy

The Battle of the Philippine Sea

The 'Great Gale' hits Normandy

Living with the 'Bumble bomb'

The Resistance hits back

'Bailout Over Normandy'

'Doodlebugs' hit London

D-Day in the Pacific

Death in the Hedgerows

Ambush at Villers-Bocage

A day trip to Normandy

Robert Cole leads Bayonet charge

Massacre at Oradour sur Glane

'The Human Face of D-Day'

The wounded are brought home

Normandy: follow-up waves arrive

Naval gunfire proves decisive

'Flesh Wounds'

D-Day - an Extraordinary 'Surprise'

Eisenhower "OK, Let's Go"

Rome Liberated

D-Day in doubt

'Churchill's Secret Weapons'

Soham Railway Disaster

Anzio - after the breakout

A pep talk from Patton

US Medic taken prisoner

Glider attacks imminent

D-Day invasion fleet bombed

Biak - yet another amphibious landing

Chosen to be Gassed

The British shoot their wounded

Maintaining the Italian break out

Breakout from Anzio

Chindit base attacked

British await second front

US Navy 'practice' gunnery

'A Judge in Auschwitz'

Final Preparations for D-Day

The Allies take Cassino

Marauders capture airstrip

Auschwitz is enlarged

Jail Hill is held - at cost

Night drop into Slovenia

German spy watches D-Day exercises

'With the East Surreys'

Red Army Liberates Sevastopol

Final Assault on Monte Cassino

Jungle airstrips for the Chindits

Allied supplies looted

USAAF go back to Berlin

Germans prepare for invasion

Frontal assault on Japanese bunkers

'The Japanese as an Opponent'

'Between tedium and terror'

Moonlight disaster for the RAF

Celebrating 'Constitution Day'

The fight continues in Finland

Berliners adjust to bombing

50 yards from the Germans

"Seven seconds from Eternity"

'The Waffen SS in Normandy 1944'

Exercise Tiger convoy ambushed

D-Day exercises intensify

German contempt for Italians

Big guns pound Cassino

Chindits ambush Japanese

Nightmare over Dusseldorf

Harassing shellfire at Anzio

'From Le Paradis to Kohima'

Heavy casualties as Paris bombed

Disaster as SS Paul Hamilton hit

The bombardment of Sabang

The relief of Kohima begins

The bombing of Semlin Judenlager

Black Sunday for the 5th Air Force

Japanese destroyer torpedoed

'Operation Neptune'

The Norfolks arrive at Kohima

Bombing is part of a daily routine

The hazards of a Japanese 'infirmary'

Life in a a 'grotesque' Berlin

Two U-Boats in two days

British besieged on Indian border

Black day for the 44th

Escape from Auschwitz

Islamic warrior earns VC

USAAF return to Ploesti

Auschwitz photographed

Dive bombers hit the Tirpitz

French civilians massacred in Ascq

The German retreat in Ukraine

'Monte Cassino - A German View'

Pilot Officer Barton dies saving his crew

Rehearsal for D-Day

A cornered U-boat fights back

'Fight to the Last Man'

The Kinder Aktion in the Kovno Ghetto

OSS Troops Murdered

A burning plane and no parachute

The Great Escape

The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III

Japanese halted at Sangshak

The infantry confront the Monastery

U-333 survives attack by Walker's group

Young bodies bear the brunt of war

Panic as the Red Army approaches

USAAF disaster over Friedrichshafen

'In the Service of the Emperor'

Burma - Battles behind the Lines

Montgomery addresses invasion troops

The Bombing of the Monastery

The reality of the Black Market in Italy

Murder on the High Seas

Murder in a US POW camp

Heroic single handed bayonet attack

'While Berlin Burns'

The desperate battle for Hill 260

Horrors of the Death Railway

The front line in the mountains of Italy

Taking a Mosquito deep into France

Black Monday for the 8th Air Force

Chuck Yeager evades capture

The second Chindit raid deep into Burma

Beaufighter And Mosquito Operations In WWII

US Fighter Escort Ambushed

German propaganda seeks to divide the allies

The Red Army marches west

The Cavalry arrive in the Pacific

Survival in Auschwitz - understand the system

Intelligence on the front line

Beaten to death for teaching children

'Naval Eyewitnesses'

The plans for Overlord come together

The 392nd Bomb Group destroy Gotha

Londoners adjust to a nightly 'Blitz'

Disaster in Nijmegen

Fate and shellfire

'Big Week' hits Germany

The 'Baby Blitz' hits London

'Sniper on the Eastern Front'

Operation Jericho

Heavy casualties holding the line at Anzio

Hitler calls for "iron will"

Desperating holding the line at Anzio

New Guinea battlefield revisited

Italians suffer as the battles continue

Troopship torpedoed in Indian Ocean

US Infantry under German observation

A successful 'Rodeo' raid

Three U-Boats hunted down

Outstanding Courage at Anzio

Japanese bayonet wounded in hospital

Death on the Anzio bridgehead

Under shellfire in the shadow of Cassino

'Creating Hitler's Germany'

Duelling with a German sniper

'Mopping Up' on Kwajalein

Allied POWs humiliated

Disaster at Cisterna

London tense as the bombing starts again

Work on the Atlantikwall becomes urgent

A German post war breeding programme

General Mark Clark survives 'friendly fire'

A Tailor in Auschwitz

The Siege of Leningrad is Lifted

Surviving Soviet artillery

The Germans move to contain Anzio

Japanese death march begins

Relief at the success at Anzio

Operation Shingle: The Anzio landings

'Hitler's Court'

US troops in suicidal assault

Lieutenant Horwood draws Japanese fire

Captured by a German raiding party

Disaster as shell hits Royal Artillery battery

A bloody baptism of fire

Freezing on the Eastern Front

German grip on Poland tightens

'Radio Operator on the Eastern Front'

Hitler rejects a defensive strategy in the East

Why is the USA not helping the Jews?

A young man with his life ahead of him

Roosevelt sets out a vision for the future

Shot in the neck during dawn raid

Working in the Auschwitz complex

In the Eastern Front trenches

'The Second World War Illustrated'

Heroic single man attack

Flushing out 'the Japs' in the jungle

The Royal Engineers prepare for D-Day

Work resumes on 'Harry'

Tank duel on the Eastern Front

US Marines are dive bombed

Hope and dread in Berlin