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Billy Rowe made an impression well beyond the battlefield

St. Paul's in the smoke: An iconic photo 80 years later

Two correspondents' final flight

A different kind of Christmas story

'Nuts!': Gen. Anthony McAuliffe's legendary Bastogne rebuff

Joe McDonald and a case of mistaken identity

Barney Oldfield, the parachuting public relations officer

Massacre at Malmedy

Glenn Miller disappears: Today in World War II history

Henry T. Waskow and the Ernie Pyle tribute that made him famous

Vasily Grossman documented the horrors of Treblinka

Bert Brandt sent the first photos from France on D-Day

Ann Stringer picked up where her late husband left off

Eve Curie's battlefield travelogue

Thanksgiving 1942: Exporting an American holiday

Gen. George S. Patton and the slaps heard 'round the world

Ralph Barnes: First U.S. war correspondent to fall

Kristallnacht: The night the world took notice

Sinking of the USS Tang: 'Like the world coming to an end'

Dorie Miller at Pearl Harbor: Telling a hero's story

43 Days: Vern Haugland's fight to survive in New Guinea

Operation Market Garden: Dropping in on Holland

Peleliu: Hitting the beach with the Marines

Captured by the Nazis: War correspondent to POW

'Today the guns are silent': Japan surrenders

Clare Hollingworth and the scoop of a lifetime

Paris liberated: De Gaulle under fire

Liberation Day: When Paris went mad

'Blackest' days for war correspondents

William L. Laurence witnesses the bombing of Nagasaki

PT-109: John F. Kennedy fights to survive in the Solomons

Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

Killed by friendly fire: Lesley J. McNair and Bede Irvin

The July 20 plot on Hitler's life

Thomas D. Howie: The Major of Saint-Lô

'Greyhound' in real life: Covering the convoys

Liberating Caen: The unbroken spirit of 'war-tortured' French civilians

Tuskegee Airmen: Charles B. Hall records 99th's first victory

USS Bunker Hill kamikaze attack: 'Now It Can Be Told'

John T. Whitaker predicted Hitler's move into Russia -- and its failure

Audie Murphy's Overlooked Heroics

D-Day: Keeping the Mulberry secret

Bill Shenkel's B-29 shot down over Japan

An interview with Adolf Hitler

D-Day: Ernie Pyle's struggle to tell the invasion story

D-Day: Martha Gellhorn goes rogue to get her story

'D-Day has come': Breaking the invasion news to the world

D-Day: Behind enemy lines with a typewriter

Missing D-Day: 'Performers without an audience'

D-Day: Joan Ellis and the AP's accidental invasion report

D-Day with Ike: Red Mueller at Eisenhower's headquarters

D-Day: Correspondents balance ambition, fear ahead of invasion

Attu: Japan's last desperate charge

Lord Haw Haw captured by British forces

Ernest Hemingway invades London ahead of D-Day

Ollie Stewart: The Afro-American's man at the front

The Dambusters raid: Guy Gibson and 617 Squadron

A very different Washington Post

Brothers reunite on the beach at Anzio

V-1 'buzz bombs' terrorize England

Henry T. Waskow and the Ernie Pyle tribute that made him famous

Virginia Irwin's dash to Berlin

D-Day: George Hicks brings the sound of battle into your living room

Pearl Harbor: When a global story hits home

Pearl Harbor: A nation thrust into war

Correspondent Jack Thompson parachutes into Sicily

'Orchestrated Hell': Edward R. Murrow over Berlin

Dieppe: Ross Munro's eyewitness report

'Nuts!': Gen. Anthony McAuliffe's legendary Bastogne rebuff

D-Day: Utah Beach with Kenneth Crawford

The first rough draft of history