World War II Today

Follow the war as it happened ... events in the Second World War brought to you exactly seventy years after they happened ... drawn from military reports, personal diaries and memoirs ... includes contemporary images and newsreel.

Allies launch the last big offensive in Italy

9 Apr 2020 at 6:00am
All four companies then lay low in their assembly areas, to be clear of the artillery bombardment. Fifteen minutes later, all hell broke loose. For four hours, the Germans were bombarded by artillery and mortars and bombed and strafed at intervals by hundreds of Allied aircraft. Thousands of fragmentation bombs hit enemy artillery dugouts and reserve areas. Sunset that day illuminated a hellish pall of smoke and dust across the German lines. The noise was thunderous. For the beleaguered Jerries it must have seemed like the end of the world.

Death of a Danish hero ? Anders Lassen VC

8 Apr 2020 at 6:00am
Thus it was that while he and his sergeant were going through the small rooms of the German and Italian barrack-building outside Phira, a couple of nights before, Lassen had orders his companions to wake up the sleeping enemy soldiers before cutting their throats, so that they should know what was happening to them. The sergeant had refused. Nothing was said at the time, but when I met up with the party at the Perissa monastery Lassen was insisting on putting his sergeant on a charge for disobeying orders. The other officers had tried to dissuade him without much success.

US planes sink Yamato ? world?s largest battleship

7 Apr 2020 at 6:00am
The captain is out in the open in the antiaircraft command post overlooking the whole ship. Two ensigns attend him and plot on the maneuver board the torpedoes coming from all directions, indicating them to him with pointers. The navigation officer sits in the captain's seat on the bridge; acting as one, the two men operate the ship. Coming over the voice tube, the captain?s orders deafen me. His is a terrible and angry voice, biting off the ends of words. Bombs, bullets focus on the bridge.

As the Allies move east, the refugees move west

6 Apr 2020 at 6:00am
The Germans were terri?ed of the Russians. Again and again women ran out to us to cry: ?Can?t you leave a guard with us? The Russians have taken everything. The next lot will smash up the place if they ?nd nothing.? More than that the German women feared for themselves. Cases of rape increased. The looting increased. And still that vast moving human frieze kept pouring down the roads, constantly augmenting its numbers with every new town that was captured.

Wounded captive to conqueror in a day

5 Apr 2020 at 6:00am
I made a dash for a house by the road, but the door was locked. I hammered on the door with my stick, and a woman opened it. She looked alarmed, but I limped in and my driver joined me. The Jerries must have been rotten shots, or we should have been cut to pieces. While my wound was being attended to, ten or fifteen Germans walked into the basement. They let my driver finish dressing the wound, then told us to get outside. It was then I noticed a row of the German field grey hats poking up behind a hedge.

The Germans fall back in increasing disarray

4 Apr 2020 at 6:00am
We were advancing down a road in convoy when a German tank drove out of a grove of trees, fired point-blank, killed two of our men, and then retreated from sight again. The convoy halted and two of our rifle companies went forward and surrounded the little grove that contained, they discovered, a platoon of German soldiers in deep foxholes. The German tank kept swivelling and firing, and after a while four of our own tanks came up. Each from a different direction sprayed the tiny stretch of woods with long streams of flaming gasoline.

Okinawa ? grim reality in Japanese underground hospital

3 Apr 2020 at 6:00am
Outside was a rain of bullets from morning to night. In the evening, it quieted down a little. It was then that we carried out limbs and corpses. There were so many shell craters ? it sounds funny to say it, but we considered that fortunate: holes already dug for us. ?One, two, three!? we'd chant, and all together we?d heave the dead body into a hole, before crawling back to the cave. There was no time for sobbing or lamentation.

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