TIME Magazine

Havoc at Honolulu

Most of the incredible facts of Japan's attack on Hawaii were given to the U.S. this week by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, who flew to Honolulu to get them

The Bombers are Growing

The world has not yet seen, felt nor imagined the full and awful might of U.S. air power

Battle of Detroit

Something is happening that Hitler does not understand—old American miracle war production, and its miracle-worker is the automobile industry

The First Offensive

The attack on the Solomon Islands has snatched the offensive from the Japanese in the Pacific. For the first time since Dec. 7 this priceless intangible asset is finally in U.S. hands

March From The Beaches

When we land we will meet German and Italian soldiers whom it is our honor and privilege to attack and destroy

Victory is in the Air

The R.A.F. and the U.S. Air Force are in head-on collision with the bulk of Germany's fighter-plane strength. The issue to be decided: Can Germany be bombed out of the war?

Meeting in Normandy

The armies were not yet locked in the full shock of decisive battle. But the day was at hand; the war in western Europe was about to enter a fourth phase

"The Fate of the World"

1944 was the climactic year of the war against Germany. It was not the last year of that war but it was the last full year

We Interrupt This Program

When the news came to the fighting fronts, G.I.s yelled, pounded, fired guns and drank whiskey. The celebration had tragic consequences : six men killed, 30 wounded

The Bomb

The war ended this week in the echoes of an event so enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance

The First Victory

The events of last week in Europe were not only the greatest but probably the ugliest in human history