Month: April 2021
-
Hitler’s demise: ‘The bloody dog is dead’
The German announcement that Adolf Hitler was dead spawned more skepticism than celebration among the Allies.
-
Ernie Pyle killed on Ie Shima
The fighting man lost its best friend and greatest advocate on April 18, 1945, when Ernie Pyle was killed by a Japanese machine-gunner on Ie Shima.
-
Murrow at Buchenwald: ‘I pray you to believe what I have said’
Edward R. Murrow wasn’t the first correspondent to file a report from newly liberated Buchenwald, but his harrowing dispatch had a sizable impact on public opinion.
-
Okinawa: The ‘easy’ victory that wasn’t
On April 1, 1945, U.S. soldiers and marines walked virtually unopposed onto the shores of Okinawa. They didn’t believe victory could be so easy. It wouldn’t be.
World War II on Deadline 