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This is a Bibliography of World War II memoirs and autobiographies. This list aims to include memoirs written by participants of World War II about their wartime experience, as well as larger autobiographies of participants of World War II that are at least partially concerned with the author's wartime experience.
Cover of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960) by William L. Shirer. This is a bibliography of works on World War II.. The bibliography aims to include primary, secondary and tertiary sources regarding the European theatre of World War II (1939–1945) and the Pacific War (1941–1945).
The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. Background shading indicates the individual is still living Last survivors Veteran Birth Death Notability Service Allegiance Aimé Acton 1917 or 1918 13 December 2020 (aged 102) Last ...
Yet hundreds attended this WWII veteran's funeral. Initial successes were temporary as Allied forces retook lands lost by the end of January 1945 and the Nazis lost between 80,000 to 100,000 ...
Photo of the Dora Mittelbau rocket assembly tunnels, where parts for the Mittelwerk V-2 rockets were stored, taken by Victor. He was born in Dupont, Pennsylvania to Frank and Agnes Victor. [2]
Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was an Akimel O'odham Indigenous American and a United States Marine during World War II.Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, located in Pinal and Maricopa counties in Arizona.
Sadie Carrie Owney Horton (October 25, 1899 – December 8, 1997) was an American female mariner who worked aboard an East Coast U.S. Merchant Marine barge. In February 2017, Horton posthumously received official U.S. military veteran's status for her wartime service, becoming the first recorded female Merchant Marine veteran of World War II.
One of the veterans on the first flight was 95-year-old Richard Gay. Gay served in the Army from 1945-46 doing field artillery in Japan. He said he flew on another honor flight in 2022, which took ...