Read the stories grandpa never told
The World War II Chronicle provides you with a different take on history, re-publishing each day’s newspaper from 80 years ago. You already know what happened, but here’s how it happened. Find out what the war was like. The newspaper carried the stories that are long gone now — first-hand accounts of events that are now just summarized in the encyclopedia.
By transporting readers into the war as it happened, a day at a time, we can wrap our mind around individual events, colored by the fact that we know how it turns out, and gain a better understanding of why events played out the way they did. Meanwhile, we can recreate some of the suspense and witness the personal side of the war experienced by our ancestors that has been lost over time.
Read as much or as little of the paper as you’d like. We will highlight certain stories along the way to analyze, bridging that 80-year gap by combining our understanding from looking back and theirs from being there. Given the tremendous scope of the war, much of the stories will be left for the reader to discover on their own.
The entire newspaper is at your disposal. Get lost in a historic virtual reality, following Joe DiMaggio, the Marines on Guadalcanal, or just read the classifieds and comics if you want. But we hope you enjoy our take at re-animating World War II as much as we have.
See the calendar to begin your experience.
Click here for 1942 — 1943
January 1941
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February 1941
March 1941
April 1941
May 1941
June 1941
July 1941
August 1941
September 1941
October 1941
November 1941
December 1941
Click here for 1942 — 1943