Examining the American experience in the Second World War

Combat Lessons and Battle Experiences

Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library contains some of the most useful documents for understanding what combat soldiers in all theaters learned about their equipment and their enemies

The Red Raiders at Lemberg

How a Small but Determined Enemy Force Stalled the Advance of the 100th Infantry Division in December 1944

The YANK Magazine Archive

The full catalog of the wartime Army weekly is available online, for free

The Controvich Library

Jim Controvich, a military history collector, has created one of the most useful databases of World War II memoirs and unit histories online

"We expected to die"

Marine Corpsman Richard E. Overton describes the mental strain of fighting in one of the most brutal campaigns of the Second World War