Some photos show intimate moments: At a remote base in the Aleutian Islands, U.S. Navy aircrew amuse themselves with cribbage—and posters of pin-up girls. World War II is one of the most documented ...
World War II In Colour is a 13-episode television documentary miniseries recounting the events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. The show covers the Western Front, Eastern Front, and the ...
Not published in LIFE. Liri Valley, on the road to Rome, 1944. Ask a dozen military historians to name the single most pivotal battle or campaign of World War II—the one operation that saw the war’s ...
Not published in LIFE. American bomber and crew during World War II, England, 1942. Within weeks of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s official entry into the Second World War, ...