WW2 Daily

WW2 Daily answers two questions. What happened today in World War Two? Where did it happen? Show me a map!

Flip through daily events leading up to and during the most deadly and probably most significant conflict in human history.

Each page shows the date, a succinct description, a zoomable map for the event and a link to the a detailed Wikipedia article. After a particular event? Use the search button to find it.

The data for WW2 Daily comes from the World War Two Timeline Project at Cannonade.Net. This is a community contributed project to collect time and place data for the war. You can come to the site to browse the timeline or even log in and contribute new data.

The Timeline Project currently indexes over 500 data points with new entries being added daily. If a significant event isn't in the database yet, it soon will be.