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Normandy 1944 - Eyewitness accounts
Pacific Fleet gathers for new landing
Allied air power contains Germans
War in 'Christmas card country'
High morale key to Airborne success
Churchill arrives in a war zone
Christmas day in a frozen foxhole
Eisenhower under personal threat
Screaming Eagles rushed to Bastogne
Facing the 12th SS 'Hitlerjugend'
Surprise attack in the Ardennes
The Americans and Germans at Bastogne
Hell continues for Oryoku Maru POWs
POWs endure hell on the Oryoku Maru
Hitler - War 'a test of endurance'
Outnumbered infantry attack tanks
‘Street Fighting: Schiller Strasse Style’
British troops 'maintain order'
Berlin - the international city
Hitler orders fight to the end
Escape from a flooded submarine
US infantrymen become 'killers'
US Army's ordeal in the Hurtgen Forest
Bully beef sandwiches and chocolate
USAAF Lightnings vs Soviet Yaks
"Black Monday" in Gelsenkirchen
Buffalos sneak into Middelburg
Battleship Yamato's lucky escape
Japanese begin 'kamikaze' attacks
Panzer Divison 'Hermann Goring'
Red Army under pressure to attack
Random death on the front line
'Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front'
The Mighty Eighth returns to Merseburg
A second silver star in three days
Italian civilians struggle to survive
The Kassel Raid, 27th September 1944
House to house fighting in Italy
Mengele plays God in Auschwitz
Poles join the battle in Oosterbeek
Oosterbeek - still the fight goes on
Besieged paratroopers fight on
The 82nd Airborne across the Waal
A desperate battle for survival
The assault on Bloody Nose Ridge
Nazis lie to Germans and the world
First Ballistic Missile attacks
A sodden day on the Front Line
'The Killing Fields of Provence'
Secret Service against the Nazi Regime
'Unbelievable' horror of Majanek
120th Infantry hold onto Hill 314
Infantry attack into the bocage
German counter-attack at Mortain
Marines fight off Banzai charge
Hitler survives assassination attempt
Rommel predicts Normandy defeat
'Hill 112' - a blow by blow account
Typhoon tank busters over Normandy
The 508th PIR's bloody 4th July
'Hitler's Paratroopers in Normandy'
Scottish troops attack Waffen SS
The Battle of the Philippine Sea
The 'Great Gale' hits Normandy
Robert Cole leads Bayonet charge
Normandy: follow-up waves arrive
D-Day - an Extraordinary 'Surprise'
Biak - yet another amphibious landing
The British shoot their wounded
Maintaining the Italian break out
German spy watches D-Day exercises
Final Assault on Monte Cassino
Jungle airstrips for the Chindits
Frontal assault on Japanese bunkers
Moonlight disaster for the RAF
Celebrating 'Constitution Day'
The fight continues in Finland
'The Waffen SS in Normandy 1944'
Exercise Tiger convoy ambushed
Heavy casualties as Paris bombed
Disaster as SS Paul Hamilton hit
The bombing of Semlin Judenlager
Black Sunday for the 5th Air Force
Bombing is part of a daily routine
The hazards of a Japanese 'infirmary'
Life in a a 'grotesque' Berlin
British besieged on Indian border
French civilians massacred in Ascq
'Monte Cassino - A German View'
Pilot Officer Barton dies saving his crew
The Kinder Aktion in the Kovno Ghetto
A burning plane and no parachute
The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III
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 reality of the Black Market in Italy
Heroic single handed bayonet attack
The desperate battle for Hill 260
The front line in the mountains of Italy
Taking a Mosquito deep into France
Black Monday for the 8th Air Force
The second Chindit raid deep into Burma
Beaufighter And Mosquito Operations In WWII
German propaganda seeks to divide the allies
The Cavalry arrive in the Pacific
Survival in Auschwitz - understand the system
Intelligence on the front line
Beaten to death for teaching children
The plans for Overlord come together
The 392nd Bomb Group destroy Gotha
Londoners adjust to a nightly 'Blitz'
Heavy casualties holding the line at Anzio
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
Japanese bayonet wounded in hospital
Under shellfire in the shadow of Cassino
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'
The Siege of Leningrad is Lifted
The Germans move to contain Anzio
Relief at the success at Anzio
Operation Shingle: The Anzio landings
Lieutenant Horwood draws Japanese fire
Captured by a German raiding party
Disaster as shell hits Royal Artillery battery
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
'The Second World War Illustrated'
Flushing out 'the Japs' in the jungle
The Royal Engineers prepare for D-Day