World War II

World War II Articles

• Grey Friday
  Monday, Sep. 11, 1939
  World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula.
• Parachute Landing in Normandy
  Monday, Jun. 19, 1944
  Today is D plus three. Nobody has had his boots off yet. Until yesterday we were surrounded, under constant fire. There will be more of it. But the beachhead forces have joined up with us and now the shells are going in the other direction.
• The Bomb
  Monday, Aug. 20, 1945
  The greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event—an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance.
• The Neutrals
  Aug. 14, 1939
  In World War II, if it comes, some nations may avoid fighting. But they will...
• Giant into Armor
  Jan. 08, 1951
  ...metal, almost 10 million more than in the peak year of World War II, and twice as much as all the steel mills in the...

World War II Blog Posts

• Setback for Post-WWII Japan - Real Clear Politics - Mid Term Elections - Elections 2008 - TIME
  ...faded. A chance to overcome the "demons of history" left from World War II has slipped away. The time to revise the pacifist constitution and...
• The Victory Option - Real Clear Politics - Mid Term Elections - Elections 2008 - TIME
  ...take over. We not only occupied Germany and Japan militarily after World War II, we also--and without a whit of self doubt--imposed our...
• Politics
  The Allen Report - Mike Allen - Politics - Elections 2008 - TIME
  ...Politics - Elections 2008 - TIME Nation World Business & Tech Arts Science & Health...with the course of the war, and Bush announced the departure...
• Technology
  The Smallest Problem In The World - Nerd World - Lev Grossman - Matt Selman - Technology - TIME
  ...trying to connect with their jenkem-addled students, will be saying "World War II, From The Guys Who Brought You... World War I." Political jokers...
• Technology
  Santorum Soldiers On - Real Clear Politics - Mid Term Elections - Elections 2008 - TIME
  ...the war in Iraq, declaring: "I have always said that if World War II was covered like this war, I really, very seriously, doubt that...

World War II Photo Essays & Graphics

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  The Attack on Pearl Harbor

  In less than three hours, Japanese planes crippled the U.S. Pacific fleet. Images from the raid that brought the United States into World War II and - its aftermath
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  Rain of Fire

  An interactive look at the Enola Gay and its mission to Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945

World War II TIME Covers

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