3. How Speed Defeats a U-Boat Montegue Dawson Oil on canvas The Mariners' Museum

4. U- 177 (Type IXD/2) Running on the Surface, circa 1942 Courtesy of Horst Bredow

5. U-Boat Transmitting Center Ashore in France, 1944 Courtesy of Horst Bredow

6. U.S. Navy Signalsmen Monitoring Enemy Radio Transmissions in the Atlantic, 1944 U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

7. Allied Convoy in the Atlantic, 1942 U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

8. Convoy System

12. Enigma

13. Bombe

14. Atlantic Battlefront

15. Hunter-Killers Hunter-Killers Chasing down an Axis Submarine—USS Pillsbury (DE 133) and USS Guadalcanal (CVE 60) U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

17. Allied Hunter-Killer Escorts Conducting a Depth Charge Attack on a U-Boat U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

19. U-Tanker U- 118 under Attack by U.S. Navy Aircraft, November 5, 1943 U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

20. Watch the Capture of U-505 The Battle of the Atlantic: Allied Naval Intelligence in World War II

21. Hunter-Killer Grumman TBF "Avenger" Preparing to Launch U.S. Navy photograph in the collections of The Mariners' Museum

24. Hitler’s drive to the Caucasus

25. Battle of Stalingrad

27. Operation Uranus : German 6th Army Trapped in Stalingrad November 19, 1942 - February 6, 1943

28. Operation Winter Storm : Attempt to Relieve 6th Army Battle of Stalingrad: December 12-18, 1942

29. Soviet Pursuit After Stalingrad... German Counteroffensive January 13 - March 26, 1943

34. Battle of Moscow

38. Erwin Rommel-The Desert Fox

39. Bernard Montgomery-Monty

40. George Patton

42. Casablanca Conference-January 1942 “Unconditional Surrender”

43. Invasion of Sicily-July/August 1943

45. Sicily

46. Sicily

47. Fighting in Italy’s Appenine Mts.

48. Italy

49. Italy

50. Tuskegee Institute

53. Dwight Eisenhower

67. Ike, Patton and Bradley

68. Battle of the Bulge

70. BATTLE FACTS  The coldest, snowiest weather “in memory” in the Ardennes Forest on the German/Belgium border.  Over a million men, 500,000 Germans, 600,000 Americans (more than fought at Gettysburg) and 55,000 British.  100,000 German casualties, killed, wounded or captured.  81,000 American casualties, including 23,554 captured and 19,000 killed.  1,400 British casualties 200 killed.  800 tanks lost on each side, 1,000 German aircraft.  The Malmedy Massacre, where 86 American soldiers were murdered, was the worst atrocity committed against American troops during the course of the war in Europe.  In it's entirety, the “ Battle of the Bulge, ” was the worst battles- in terms of losses - to the American Forces in WWII.

71. Hitler’s Suicide

72. Hitler’s Bunker Unearthed

73. Eva Braun

74. V-E Day May 8, 1945

76. FDR’s Death?? Or Not

78. Truman is sworn in