Directory of World War II War Stories

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• 1942: Doolittle Raid on Tokyo
• 1942: Carlson's Makin Raid
• 1942: Raid on Dieppe
• 1942: Bataan Death March
• 1942: Five Sullivan Brothers
• 1943: Death of Yamamoto
• 1943: PT-109
• 1943: Ploesti Raid
• 1944: Rangers at Pointe du Hoc
• 1944: Red Ball Express
• 1944: Bastogne, "Nuts!"
• 1944: Warsaw Uprising
• 1944: Operation Valkyrie (Attempt on Hitler's Life)
• 1945: Great Raid on Cabanatuan
• 1945: Tokyo Fire Raids
• 1945: Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
• Bob Hope's USO Tours
• Destroying the German Atomic Program in Norway
• Coastwatchers
• The Jedburghs
• The Tuskegee Airmen
• 442nd Regimental Combat Team
• Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

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WW II War Stories

Millions of people were involved in World War II every day from the mid-1930s to the end in September 1945 creating more stories than will ever be known or retold. In addition to the major battles and campaigns of World War II, this section of the Olive-Drab.com history of World War II recounts stories, incidents, facts, and experiences worth understanding and remembering but that are not covered in depth elsewhere on Olive-Drab.com. The Olive-Drab.com page of World War II Maps will be helpful to follow the action.

Rangers climbing the vertical cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, four miles west of Omaha Beach, the main American landing area on D-Day, 6 June 1944.

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