World War II Battles Timeline History Channel
30 Major Battles of World War II That Shaped Modern Warfare Forever
42 Maps that Explain World War II
Second World War National Army Museum
Pearl Harbor Raid Descriptions and photos from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
World War II: The Pacific Islands
Brief overview and outstanding photo gallery.
Victory at Sea
In depth article from The Atlantic magazine, 1999. "Recent movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line have vividly depicted the face of land battle in the Second World War, but the story of the American war is incomplete without the sweep and strategic stakes of the war at sea, in which 104,985 American sailors and Marines were wounded, 56,683 were killed, and more than 500 U.S. naval vessels were sunk. Lest we forget "