75 years ago Soviet soldiers captured Vienna after bitter street combat.

Hope and death at a concentration camp.

Hundreds of the ship's crew floated on the Pacific for days. Their location and fate were unknown to the US Navy. 

The loss of Johnnie David Hutchins was devastating to his family, but his moment of bravery almost certainly saved other parents and siblings from experiencing that same loss in the fall of 1943.

As many as half a million civilians remained in Stalingrad when the Germans approached in the late summer of 1942. Those who survived the initial onslaught and did not manage to flee, had to eke out a living on a battleground ravaged by incessant bombardment and street fighting. An overwhelming majority of them were women and children.