Selling jewelry to buy... tanks Viktor Novikov, a child of besieged Leningrad, Russia, recounts how his school was used as a hospital, and how people gave away money and jewels to buy tanks for the army.
We ate leather, others ate people Inna Strelnikova, who served as an air defense soldier, was a resident of the besieged city of Leningrad. She recalls what life during the blockade was like.
2 Minutes Left to Live Robert Mendoza, who served as a code breaker for the Atlantic Convoy, recalled the moments when he thought that there were only a few minutes left for him to live.
Female sniper revenge on NazisMaria Galyshkina, who was a sniper in the Soviet Army, shares her painful memories.
Face to face with Hitler Youth Vladimir Zhilkin, a junior artillery lieutenant from Russia, remembers how they saw German boys with weapons marching on them. At that time Russian soldiers did not know what to do. They were from the Hitler Jugend, which took part in the Berlin defense effort as part of the Nazis forces.
Hiroshima bomb shock waveDonald Larrabee, who was a public relations specialist with the U.S. Army Air Corps, recalled his reaction to the news of the atomic bomb being dropped on Japan.
US Navy combat in cold Russia Milton Dierker was a seaman first class in the US Navy during the war. He sailed to Murmansk, Russia, as part of a convoy delivering war material to the Allies. There, he became a witness to a German air raid.
Left to die with hands set on fire Moritz Mebel remembers the moment when he realized that their squad had taken the village. The sight left after the Nazis had retreated was shocking.
French in Nazi Wehrmacht André Barthelmé, the so-called malgré-nous, who was incorporated by force in Wehrmacht, tells his horrific stories.
Kamikaze at Okinawa were horrible War veteran and military journalist John Cosgrove recalls that in operations against Japan, US Navy ships had to withstand not only harsh enemy attacks, but nature attacks as well.
After that, my hair turned gray Nikolay Samodelov was a Moscow defense volunteer, 1941, Russia. He recalls digging the first common graves for 16- and 17-year-old boys
We were 'Children of Leningrad' Galina Kulikova, a child of besieged Leningrad, Russia, recalls that when the siege of Leningrad began she was only three years old.
'Plywood' plane vs MesserschmittIvan Molchanov is a living legend of Russian aviation, flying 278 combat missions as a fighter pilot throughout World War II. He recalls taking down two German fighter plane with a single salvo in a diminutive I-16 Polikarpov, a legend of its own.
I deserted Nazi army on day oneHenri Schaub is a Frenchman from Alsace, a French province annexed by Germany in 1940. He was forcibly drafted into the German army. People like him were labelled 'malgré-nous', which means 'in spite of our will'. Schaub deserted the same day he arrived on the Eastern Front. He became a Soviet PoW, and made a long journey from Russia to the Middle East and Europe to join Allied forces fighting the Germans until the end of the war.
Tanks in the Sea of Sand Luis Dorff of the Royal Tank regiment, who was a POW from Great Britain, remembers the difficulties of serving in the Middle East.
Staring into Gestapo gun barrel Nikita Krivocheine was a young boy, the son of a Russian émigré family, at the time the Germans invaded France.
Axis or Allies, human life is keyLars Loflund, border guard officer from Finland, remembers the bravery of Soviet soldiers.
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