Video: 'U.S. Bombers in First Daylight Raid on Berlin - 1944'

(Wednesday, February 23, 1944; during World War II) — American bombers today launched their first large-scale daylight raid on Berlin, the capital of Hitler’s Reich. The price they paid for their audacity was high: 69 heavy bombers and 11 escort fighters failed to return, the highest number in any raid mounted by the 8th Air Force. Continue reading American bombers launch first large-scale daylight raid on Berlin 70 years ago today (Mar 6 1944) →

Video: 'WW2: U.S. Marines Take Eniwetok (1944)'

(Wednesday, February 23, 1944; Part of World War II, Pacific War) — U.S. forces secured Eniwetok Atoll today from the Japanese, with 262 Americans killed in 7 days of fighting. The victory provided a forward base for the United States Navy for its later operations, including Allied attacks on the Mariana Islands to the northwest.

Video: 'Nijmegen 1944, American bombs on the city'

(Tuesday, February 22, 1944; part of World War II) — American aircraft mistakenly bombed the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer today, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

Video: ''Big Week' Allied Air Campaign - WW2 1944 - US Army Air Corps - Part 18'

(Sunday, February 20, 1944; part of World War II) — U.S. bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in a series of attacks that became known as “Big Week.”

Video: 'Operation Hailstone, by Steve Evans'

(Thursday, February 17, 1944; part of World War II, Pacific War) — Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air and surface attack by the United States Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk Lagoon, Japan’s main base in the central Pacific, began today in support of the Eniwetok invasion.

Video: 'WW2: U.S. Marines Take Eniwetok (1944)'

(Thursday, February 17, 1944; Part of World War II, Pacific War) — Following the American success in the Battle of Kwajalein to the southeast, the Battle of Eniwetok began today on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Capture of Eniwetok would provide an airfield and harbor to support Allied attacks on the Mariana Islands to the northwest.

Video: '1944 The Destruction of the Abby of Monte Cassino I'

(Tuesday, February 15, 1944; during the Battle of Monte Cassino, part of the Winter Line and the battle for Rome of the Italian Campaign of World War II) — The historic monastery at Monte Cassino in Italy was bombed by the Allies today in an effort to root the Germans from their strategically superior hilltop post. Though the monastery is destroyed, the Germans tenaciously hold the hill. Continue reading Allied assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins 70 years ago today (Feb 15 1944) →