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

Massacre at Malmedy

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

Pearl Harbor: When a global story hits home

Lt. Col. Evans Carlson and The Long Patrol

'Orchestrated Hell': Edward R. Murrow over Berlin

Thanksgiving 1942: Exporting an American holiday

Gen. Patton and the slaps heard 'round the world

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

Richard Tregaskis: A new biography of the legendary war correspondent

Kristallnacht: The night the world took notice

Walter Cronkite made a name for himself covering World War II

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

In Aachen, a tearful surrender

Lloyd Lehrbas, from Warsaw correspondent to MacArthur aide

Martin Sheridan meets his savior

Chuck Yeager becomes an ace in a day

Barbara Finch found a way to the front lines in the Pacific

Wes Gallagher was at the forefront of the war in Europe

William McGaffin captured the human side of war like few others

G.K. Hodenfield at Pointe du Hoc

Three correspondents, killed in a flash

Vincent Tubbs reflects on coming home from the war

Richard C. Hottelet reported from the front lines for CBS

Operation Market Garden: Dropping into Holland

Peleliu: Hitting the beach with the Marines

Captured by the Nazis: War correspondent to POW

Dick Winters: Before 'Band of Brothers'

Joseph E. Dynan, interned in Japan

An unlikely correspondent's dispatch from Poland

Art Carter's unfiltered view of war

Clare Hollingworth and the scoop of a lifetime

Majdanek: 'The most terrible place on the face of the earth'

Paris liberated: De Gaulle under fire

Liberation Day: When Paris went mad

Virginia Cowles, from high society to the front lines

Bill Henry's battlefield promotion to war correspondent

Dieppe: Ross Munro's eyewitness report

Jack Thompson, our favorite war correspondent

Operation Dragoon: 'The decisive blow for France'

Keyes Beech covered war from Tarawa to Saigon

Joe James Custer at Savo Island

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

Happy birthday, Ernie Pyle

Damien Parer, Australia's legendary combat cameraman

Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

Frank Cuhel's Olympic moment

Sid Feder, a sportswriter at war

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

Alan Moorehead's tribute to the fighting man

The July 20 plot on Hitler's life

Thomas D. Howie: The Major of Saint-Lô

Covering the Port Chicago disaster

How do you test an atomic bomb in secret?

Surgery under the sea: George Weller's Pulitzer-winning thriller

Theodore Roosevelt Jr.: Death of a beloved soldier

Jack Thompson jumps into Sicily

Seymour Korman and the fight for Hill 424

Allan A. Michie put the war in context

George Strock and the photo Life magazine waited 9 months to publish

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

One B-25 crew's life-or-death struggle with a rubber raft

Cy Peterman and the liberation of Cherbourg

Mark S. Watson served in the First World War and covered the Second

John T. Whitaker's journey from newspapers to the OSS

Ben Robertson roamed the world in search of stories

D-Day: Keeping the Mulberry secret

To correspondent Gwen Dew, traveling was living

Gladwin Hill made covering the war his mission

Paris falls: An 'incomprehensible' scene

Death after D-Day: Sgt. Norman Clague

Lee McCardell covers 'the biggest story that ever broke'

Covering the Day of Days

D-Day: Utah Beach with Ken Crawford

Liberating the Eternal City

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

George Hicks brings the sound of D-Day to your living room

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

Remembering journalists killed covering World War II

Ernest Hemingway invades London ahead of D-Day

Eddy Gilmore, the AP's man in Moscow

Vern Haugland survived a 43-day jungle ordeal

Dixie Tighe, the 'girl reporter' who made no apologies

Carl Mydans photographed the war across the globe

The Dambusters raid: Guy Gibson and 617 Squadron

Jim Bates films a tank battle in Cologne

USS Bunker Hill kamikaze attack

John Snagge, the BBC's voice of World War II

Germany surrenders: Ed Kennedy's day of infamy

Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon

Bill Boss, the conducting correspondent

Hitler's demise: 'The bloody dog is dead'

John MacVane's five years of war in Europe

Virginia Irwin's dash to Berlin

Duke Shoop and an ambush in Brittany

Edward R. Murrow, the voice of the war in Europe

Lee Miller, the model turned war photographer

Robert Losey, the first U.S. serviceman killed in World War II

Ernie Pyle killed on Ie Shima

Murrow at Buchenwald: 'I pray you to believe what I have said'

'Beachhead Don' and the war correspondent's duty

Mary Welsh at war

Kenneth L. Dixon's tribute to the grunts

Okinawa: The 'easy' victory that wasn't

One year of World War II on Deadline

R. Ernest Dupuy delivered the D-Day news

Hanson W. Baldwin put the war in context

Making Manzanar: The first internment camp

E.A. Montague, an Olympian at the front lines

Martha Gellhorn goes rogue to get her D-Day story

War and wine with Cyril Ray

Robert J. Casey's five years of war

Janet Flanner's letters from Paris, and beyond

Doon Campbell, one-handed war correspondent

Eyewitness to the Tokyo firebombing

Crossing the Rhine: The Bridge at Remagen

John Wilhelm covered the war and secured his peers' legacy

The Bethnal Green tragedy shakes London

Robert Cromie, the Chicago Tribune's man for all theaters

John Steinbeck goes to war

The Writing 69th flies to Wilhelmshaven

Leo S. Disher, first correspondent to earn a Purple Heart

Joe Rosenthal and the flag on Iwo Jima

Hal Boyle told mothers about their sons on the front lines

American hero John Basilone killed at Iwo Jima

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

Bombing Monte Cassino

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

Leonard Mosley parachuted into Normandy with a typewriter

Robert Sherrod, the 'voice of the Marines'

Battle of the Bulge: Montgomery commands U.S. troops

Guy Byam sought danger until the end

Charles B. Hall and the Tuskegee Airmen's first victory

Cyril O'Brien, Marine combat correspondent

Doug Werner's D-Day notebook

Red Mueller: D-Day (and beyond) with Ike

Audie Murphy earns his Medal of Honor

Joe Morton: War correspondent executed by the Nazis

Margaret Bourke-White goes bombing

Dick Winters: Before 'Band of Brothers'

Dramatic rescue aboard the USS Enterprise

Eisenhower meets the press in London

FDR gives baseball the green light

Andy Rooney at war

The loss of the Sullivan brothers

W.C. Heinz and the value of under-writing

J.R. Krantz dangles from a B-29, miles over Japan

FDR's 'Four Freedoms' speech

End of the line for Lord Haw Haw

A war correspondent named Philby