September 25, 2001
British and Allied forces are pushed back by an overwhelming German Army. 400,000 Allied troops are trapped in the French town of ...Read more
October 2, 2001
German tanks roll into Poland in September 1939.
October 9, 2001
Early in the war, the Germans decide they need to guarantee access to the Norwegian port of Narvik to ensure their supplies of Swe...Read more
October 16, 2001
Hitler has taken France and has his sights set on England. At a heavy toll, the Royal Air Force swings into action to stop Hitler ...Read more
October 23, 2001
German field marshal Erwin Rommel scores a major victory at the Libyan seaport of Tobruk.
October 30, 2001
After British forces withdrew in defeat from Greece to the island of Crete in early 1941, they were soon fighting German invasion ...Read more
November 6, 2001
In 1941, Mussolini desperately wants to wrest the tiny island of Malta from the British for control of the Mediterranean. When his...Read more
November 13, 2001
Before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese initiate the Pacific War by firing on the British in Malaya. Their route to ...Read more
November 20, 2001
During a two-hour surprise attack on the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Japanese navy pilots score a near-complete victory.
November 27, 2001
American and Philippine troops and Philippine scouts take on a fast advancing Japanese invasion.
December 4, 2001
Only one isolated atoll prevents an enemy invasion of Hawaii. Midway Island is where the Japanese fleet converges on a tiny Americ...Read more
December 11, 2001
For the first time since Americans entered the war, Marines face Japanese infantrymen at Guadalcanal. In the jungles, two powerful...Read more
December 18, 2001
The Allies launch an ill-fated attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France.
December 25, 2001
German forces encounter Russian resistance.
January 1, 2002
Erwin Rommel battles Allied forces in North Africa in 1942.
January 8, 2002
In the North African desert in 1942, American fighting forces encounter the dreaded Rommel for the first time to stop the German war machine.
January 15, 2002
The Japanese meet resistance from British forces as they advance through Burma to take India in 1944.
January 22, 2002
Fresh from victory in North Africa, the Allies successfully invade the island of Sicily, staging an eventual Italian withdrawal from the war.
January 29, 2002
Bombing of Ploesti
February 5, 2002
Allied troops are advancing through Italy and meet a stiff German defensive position in an old monastery Monte Cassino.
February 12, 2002
Bloody fighting erupts on a group of tiny Pacific islands in November 1943.
February 19, 2002
Allied armies encounter German resistance in the Italian fishing town of Anzio.
February 26, 2002
Examining the battle at the Kwajelein Atoll in the South Pacific during 1944. Included: operations by the Seabees.
March 5, 2002
American forces overtake Japanese troops on the islands of Palau on the way to the Philippines.
March 12, 2002
D-Day, the 6th of June--one of the most pivotal moments in world history. In a massive armada of thousands of ships, 3,000,000 all...Read more
March 19, 2002
Six weeks after the D-Day invasion of the beaches of Normandy, the allied forces are pushing the Germans back through the French c...Read more
March 26, 2002
Allied Forces continue across France pushing the German troops back into Germany.
April 2, 2002
Both political and military expediency were factors in the return of the French capital to its people.
April 9, 2002
The Allies launch an attack designed to push the Germans back to the Rhine River.
April 16, 2002
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines, and the final push to retake the islands after two years of Japanese occupation.
April 23, 2002
American B-29 high-altitude bomber attacks Japan near the end of World War II.
April 30, 2002
The Battle of the Gothic Line in 1944.
May 7, 2002
The December 1944 battle pitting American forces against German Panzer divisions in the Ardennes Forest.
May 14, 2002
American forces landing on the shores of Iwo Jima encounter Japanese combatants willing to fight to the death.
May 21, 2002
German forces retreat across the Rhine on the Remagen bridge near the close of the war.
May 28, 2002
Kamikaze pilots guard the island of Okinawa from American forces.
June 4, 2002
In 1945, Soviet and American troops press Hitler's armies from the west and the east, culminating in the fall of Berlin.
June 11, 2002
Heavily armed vessels disguised as ordinary cargo ships patrolled allied waters, sinking supply boats and stealing their content.
June 18, 2002
The development of the B-17 bomber, which allowed American planes to reach inside Germany and bomb its cities.
June 25, 2002
U-boats posed the deadliest threat to Allied convoys traveling the Atlantic.