The month of November saw progress across all the fronts of the war. In Northern Belgium, British and Canadian forces focused their efforts on opening the key port of Antwerp, Belgium. Meanwhile, in eastern France, General George Patton’s Third Army crossed the...

U.S. forces reached and defeated German forces in the city Aachen, Germany in one of the largest urban battles fought by U.S. forces in World War II. The campaign in the Hurtgen Forest proved much more difficult and costly as the German Army stalled a U.S. advance and...

U.S. progress in the Pacific theater included a hard fought victory over Japanese forces on the island of Peleliu and the building of the largest Naval base in history on the island of Ulithi, which quickly became the forward staging base for future invasions in the...