EyeWitness To World War Two

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cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" bgcolor="#E8E6D2"> <tr>  <td width="50%" valign="top"> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="ultimatum.htm"><B>The Beginning of World War II, 1939</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"What now?' asked Hitler with a savage look..." Hitler's interpreter describes the reaction of the Fuhrer and his henchmen to an ultimatum from Britain and the beginning of World War II.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="london1939.htm"><B>London Goes to War, 1939</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">Prime Minister Chamberlain's radio announcement of war was made at 11:15 AM - the air raid sirens began wailing at 11:27.</font><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="blitzkrieg.htm"><B>Blitzkrieg, 1940</B></A><BR> <img src="images/hpblitzkrieg.gif" width=60 height=35 vspace=5 hspace=5 align="left" border=0 alt="Blitzkrieg, 1940"><font color="3F3F3F">"The tanks now rolled in a long column through the line of fortifications and on towards the first houses, which had been set alight by our fire." Join General Erwin Rommel as he leads his panzers into France.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="dunkirk.htm"><B>Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"The beach, black with men, illumined by the fires, seemed a perfect target." The British snatch a moral victory from the jaws of defeat.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="francesurrenders.htm"><B>France Surrenders, 1940</B></A> •<BR> <font color="3F3F3F">(Hitler's face) "is afire with scorn, anger, hate, revenge, triumph." The French are forced to surrender to the Germans in the same railroad car in which, 22 years earlier, they accepted the German surrender that ended World War I.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="hitlerparis.htm"><B>Hitler Tours Paris, 1940</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I often considered whether we would not have to destroy Paris." Join Adolph Hitler on his whirl-wind tour of the city after the German defeat of France.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="francedefeat.htm"><B>France in Defeat, 1940</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"...villages are deserted, the farmsteads empty. Crops are rotting on the ground." France is stunned by its quick defeat by Germany.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="airbattle.htm"><B>The Battle of Britain, 1940</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"The sky seemed full of them, packed in layers thousands of feet deep. They came on steadily, wavering up and down along the horizon. 'Oh, golly,' I thought, 'golly, golly . . .' " An RAF pilot describes the air combat over London.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="blitz.htm"><B>The London Blitz, 1940</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F"> A night bombing raid from a Londoner's perspective.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0">  <A HREF="poland.htm"><B>The Nazi Occupation Of Poland</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">A Polish physician documents the German occupation of a small Polish village.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0">  <A HREF="leningrad.htm"><B>The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"You just stepped over corpses in the street." For 900 days the German Army attempted to starve the city into submission.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0"> <IMG Width="53" Height="49" Hspace="5" Vspace="5" SRC="images/w201.gif" ALT="Attack at Pearl Harbor" BORDER=0 align="left"> <A HREF="pearl.htm"><B>Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941.</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">". . .a terrible explosion caused the ship to shake violently." Aboard the USS <I>Arizona</I> during the attack.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="pearl2.htm"><B>Attack At Pearl Harbor - the Japanese View</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Suprise attack succesful!" The leader of the air attack describes the view from his cockpit</font>.<p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="pearl3.htm"><B>Attack At Pearl Harbor - the White House Reaction</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"My God, there's another wave of Jap planes over Hawaii right this minute." The attack stuns the White House.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="bataandeathmarch.htm"><B>The Bataan Death March, 1942</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"The bodies were left where they lay" - an eyewitness account of Japanese brutality during the forced-march of American prisoners into captivity after their surrender in the Philippines.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="doolittle.htm"><B>The Doolittle Raid, 1942</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I looked back and out I got a quick, indelible vision of one of our 500-pounders as it hit our steel-smelter target." The Americans retaliate for the attack on Pearl Harbor with a daring air raid on Japan.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="midway.htm"><B>The Battle of Midway, 1942</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"A lookout atop the bridge yelled: 'Enemy torpedo bombers, 30 degrees to starboard, coming in low!'" The view from a Japanese aircraft carrier of 5 minutes that changed the war.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="convoy.htm"><B>Attack on an Arctic Convoy, 1942</B></A> •<BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"That was hell. There is no other word I know for it." Defending a Russia-bound cargo ship during a Nazi air attack.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="sicily.htm"><B>Reconnaissance Patrol, 1943</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"No!' the woman screamed. 'No! No!" Join an American reconnaissance patrol as it searches a Sicilian village for the enemy.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="ploesti.htm"><B>Bombing Raid on Ploesti, 1943</B></A> •<BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I looked out to the right for a moment and saw a sheet of raw gasoline trailing Pete's left wing." The American low-level bombing raid on the German refinery complex in Romania was one of the costliest of the war. Ride along in the cockpit of an attacking bomber.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="tarawa.htm"><B>The Bloody Battle of Tarawa, 1943</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I was scared, as I had never been scared before." The U.S. Marines attack the Japanese on a tiny Pacific atoll in one of World War Two's costliest battles.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="battlefielddeath.htm"><B>A Battlefield Death, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"They laid him on the ground in the shadow of the stone wall alongside the road." The death of one American soldier in the hills of southern Italy symbolizes the brutal reality of war.</font> <p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="shot.htm"><B>Shot Down Over France, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">Flight Officer Chuck Yeager is shot down over enemy territory and escapes capture with the help of the French Resistance.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="gilondon.htm"><B>A GI's Trip to London, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">Four GIs on a 2-day pass</font><p> </td>   <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="b17.htm"><B>Life and Death Aboard a B-17, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"They came so close that I could see the pilots' faces, and I fired so fast that my gun jammed." The battle in the skies over Europe.</font></p> <p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <IMG Width="68" Height="90" Hspace="5" Vspace="5" SRC="images/w207.gif" ALT="Loose Lips Sink Ships" BORDER=0 align="left"> <A HREF="lslips.htm"><B>"Loose Lips Sink Ships"</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">Advice to GIs on what to say and not say when writing home, carrying on a conversation, or if captured during World War II.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="dday2.htm"><B>The Invasion of Normandy, 1944: On the Beach</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I saw men sinking all about me." D-Day: join the assault on <i>Fortress Europe</i> as the first wave of the Normandy Invasion lands on the French beaches.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="dday.htm"><B>Invasion of Normandy, 1944: A Civilian's View</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Little by little the gray dawn comes up., but this time around, from the intensity of the aircraft and the cannon an idea springs to mind: landing!" A French woman describes the first hours of D-Day.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="parisliberation.htm"><B>The Liberation of Paris, 1944.</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Germans were also shooting from Notre Dame and from nearby houses." After four years, French forces liberate the "City of Light."</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="mauldin.htm"><B>America's Front Line Soldier, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"The dogface's real hero is the litter bearer and aid man..." Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, creator of "Wille and Joe" provides insight into the hardships and motivation of America's combat soldier in World War II.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="lindbergh2.htm"><B>Charles Lindbergh in Combat, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"My tracers and my 20's spatter on his plane." Fly with the "Lone Eagle" as he joins the air war in the South Pacific as a private citizen. The article includes an audio clip of an anti-war speech given by Lindbergh in September 1941.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="maidanek.htm"><B>Inside a Nazi Death Camp, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"It looked singularly harmless." A reporter describes the first Death Camp liberated by Allied troops.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0">  <A HREF="sunk.htm"><B>Sunk By Submarine, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I spotted wake in the water, about four hundred to four hundred and fifty yards away from the ship." Aboard the S.S. <i>John A. Johnson</i> attacked by a Japanese sub in the Pacific</font><p><img src="images/w202.gif" width="98" height="137" align="right"> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="rommel.htm"><B>The Forced Suicide of Field Marshall Rommel, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I shall be dead in a quarter of an hour." Hitler forces his "favorite General" to take his own life.</font><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="patton.htm"><B>General George Patton Interrogates a SS General, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"He is a liar!" General Patton personally interrogates a SS General captured during the bloody battle of Metz, France.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="kamikaze.htm"><B>Kamikaze Attack, 1944</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"It was a fight to the finish." Aboard a US cruiser as it experiences the first attack by the most dreaded Japanese weapon.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="iwoflag.htm"><B>Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">Raising the 1st US flag over Mt. Suribachi in the heat of battle.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="remagen.htm"><B>Capturing the Bridge at Remagen, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I spotted this lieutenant, standing out there completely exposed to the machine gun fire. . . He was cutting wires and kicking the German demolition charges off the bridge with his feet!" The Americans cross the Rhine River.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="tokyo.htm"><B>The Tokyo Fire Raids, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Hell could be no hotter." In March 1945 The U.S. began an air campaign designed to obliterate the Japanese cities with fire. The first target was Tokyo and the results more devastating than the later atomic bomb attacks. Join an eyewitness on the ground.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="berlin.htm"><B>The Battle of Berlin, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Throughout the night, we huddled together in mortal fear, not knowing what the morning might bring. " A Berlin women describes the final days of the Nazi capital.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="warends.htm"><B>The War Ends in Europe, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">" 'The war is over!' I was crying in the foxhole from joy, I couldn't believe it." A soldier's story of the end of the war and his return home.</font><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="londonveday.htm"><B>London Celebrates VE Day, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"American sailors and laughing girls formed a conga line down the middle of Piccadilly." After six years of war, Londoners rejoice victory.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="berlindefeat.htm"><B>Berlin in Defeat, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"...an elderly woman and a little girl were foraging for fuel in another wrecked house." The devastation was total and cigarette butts were currency.</font><p><img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="germanydefeat.htm"><B>Germany in Defeat, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"White flags were hanging out of windows in villages we passed on the way..." A tour of Germany days after its surrender.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="atomictest.htm"><B>The First Atomic Blast, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"We were reaching into the unknown and we did not know what might come of it."</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="indianapolis.htm"><B>The Sinking of the USS <i>Indianapolis</i>, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"I knew I was dying but I really didn't care." A survivor describes the greatest naval disaster in US history.</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="hiroshima.htm"><B>The Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945</B></A><BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Suddenly there was a strong flash of light..."</font><p> <img src="images/dot3.gif" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"> <A HREF="nuremberg.htm"><B>The Sentencing and Execution of the Nazi War Criminals, 1946</B></A> •<BR> <font color="3F3F3F">"Goering came down first and strode into his cell, his face pale and frozen, his eyes popping..." 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