World War II Videos, Photos, and Stories

Battles of War
War History, Videos, and Footage

Enter your search terms Submit search form

Web BattlesOfWar.com

HOME > World War II
Panzers Found in Norway
Post World War II the Norwegian Army took advantage of the huge piles of German material and supplies, including PzIIIs and StuGIIIs.

Lost Evidence: Tarawa 5 of 5
Outstanding documentary on Tarawa. Tarawa was a nightmare. The entire 2nd Marine Division was required taking an island of 1 square mile in area. The island was defended by 3,000 Imperial Marines. The beachhead was contested from the start. Upwards of 1,000 U.S. Marines were killed in action.

Lost Evidence: Tarawa 4 of 5
Outstanding documentary on Tarawa. Tarawa was a nightmare. The entire 2nd Marine Division was required taking an island of 1 square mile in area. The island was defended by 3,000 Imperial Marines. The beachhead was contested from the start. Upwards of 1,000 U.S. Marines were killed in action.

Lost Evidence: Tarawa 3 of 5
Outstanding documentary on Tarawa. Tarawa was a nightmare. The entire 2nd Marine Division was required taking an island of 1 square mile in area. The island was defended by 3,000 Imperial Marines. The beachhead was contested from the start. Upwards of 1,000 U.S. Marines were killed in action.

Lost Evidence: Tarawa 2 of 5
Outstanding documentary on Tarawa. Tarawa was a nightmare. The entire 2nd Marine Division was required taking an island of 1 square mile in area. The island was defended by 3,000 Imperial Marines. The beachhead was contested from the start. Upwards of 1,000 U.S. Marines were killed in action.

Lost Evidence: Tarawa 1 of 5
Outstanding documentary on Tarawa. Tarawa was a nightmare. The entire 2nd Marine Division was required taking an island of 1 square mile in area. The island was defended by 3,000 Imperial Marines. The beachhead was contested from the start. Upwards of 1,000 U.S. Marines were killed in action.

Major Battles of World War II
There were numerous battles in World War II. Some of these battles lasted only days while others took months or years. Some of the battles were notable for the material losses such as tanks or aircraft carriers while others were notable for the number of human losses.

New Exhibit Explores Hitler's 'Germania'
Hitler was confident of winning World War II and planned to give Berlin a monumental makeover by 1950. A group in Berlin has collected records about his 'Germania' vision and plans to lead tours through what's left of the old construction site.

World War II Compilation Video
Various footage from World War II.

WWII Soviet Sniper Photo Compilation
Sniper Photo Compilation photos, many from the Soviet Union back in World War II.

World War II
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict, the joining of what had initially been two separate conflicts. The first began in Asia in 1937 as the Second Sino-Japanese War; the other began in Europe in 1939 with the German invasion of Poland.
This global conflict split the majority of the world's nations into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. It involved the mobilization of over 100 million military personnel, making it the most widespread war in history, and placed the participants in a state of "total war", erasing the distinction between civil and military resources. This resulted in the complete activation of a nation's economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities for the purposes of the war effort. Over 60 million people, the majority of them civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest conflict in human history. The financial cost of the war is estimated at about a trillion 1944 U.S. dollars worldwide, making it the most costly war in capital as well as lives.
The Allies were victorious, and, as a result, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as the world's leading superpowers. This set the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 45 years. The United Nations was formed in hopes of preventing another such conflict. The self determination spawned by the war accelerated decolonization movements in Asia and Africa, while Europe itself began moving toward integration.