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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Day One: Hitler Invades Poland: September 1, 1939 | |
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| The Fall of Norway: April 9, 1940 | |
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| The Battle of Britain: December 29, 1940 | |
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| Coming to America: A Jewish Refugee: March 25, 1941 | |
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| The Attack on Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941 | |
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| The Draft Gets Rolling: February 1942 | |
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| The Bataan Death March: April 1942 | |
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| Jimmy Doolittle's Raid: April 18, 1942 | |
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| The Battle of Corregidor: May 7, 1942 | |
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| The Battle of Midway: June 3, 1942 | |
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| The Japanese Internment Camps: Summer 1942 | |
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| The Higgins Shipyard: Fall 1942 | |
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| The Battle of Guadalcanal: November 14, 1942 | |
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| A Child's Revenge: November 1942 | |
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| The Battle of Stalingrad: November 19, 1942 | |
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| A Flying Ace in the Solomon Islands: January 31, 1943 | |
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| The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: April 19, 1943 | |
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| The Invasion of Sicily: July 10, 1943 | |
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| The Invasion of Italy: September 9, 1943 | |
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| Thanksgiving in Tunisia: November 25, 1943 | |
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| A Tuskegee Airman: December 8, 1943 | |
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| Welcome to the USO: December 19, 1943 | |
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| Diary of an Army Nurse in Italy: March 2, 1944 | |
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| D Day: June 6, 1944 | |
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| Patton's Third Army: August 1, 1944 | |
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| A Fighter Pilot at Guam and Saipan: Summer 1944 | |
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| The Liberation of Paris: August 26, 1944 | |
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| Trucking with the Red Ball Express: Fall 1944 | |
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| In Hiding: Fall 1944 | |
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| The Battle of Leyte Gulf: October 23, 1944 | |
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| Joining the WACs: October 1944 | |
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| Working Underground in Hungary: October 1944 | |
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| The Battle of the Bulge: December 16, 1944 | |
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| Two Brothers in Luxembourg: January 2, 1945 | |
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| The Segregated Army: Winter 1944-1945 | |
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| The Battle of Iwo Jima: February 19, 1945 | |
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| Bombs over Tokyo: March 10, 1945 | |
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| Crossing the Rhine: March 24, 1945 | |
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| The Battle of Okinawa: April 2, 1945 | |
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| Entering Buchenwald: April 12, 1945 | |
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| The Liberation of Dachau: April 29, 1945 | |
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| V-E Day: May 8, 1945 | |
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| Playing at Potsdam: July 16, 1945 | |
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| The Sinking of the Indianapolis: July 30, 1945 | |
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| Hiroshima: August 6, 1945 | |
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| Japan Surrenders: August 14, 1945 | |
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| V.-J. Day: September 2, 1945 | |
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| Back to School: September 1945 | |
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| Prisoner of War: October 15, 1945 | |
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| The Occupation of Japan: October 1945 | |
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| Leaving a Marker: November 11, 1945 | |
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| The Nuremberg Trials: November 1945 | |
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| I'll Be Home for Christmas: December 25, 1945 | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |