River Crossing at Arnaville is the story of a battle that started badly and ended in victory; Objective: Schmidt, of a battle that began with an unexpectedly easy success and turned into tragic defeat. Break-Through at Monte Altuzzo is the account of how, after a succession of misguided efforts, a comparatively small number of men penetrated the formidable Gothic Line in Italy.

This chronology focuses on tactical events from the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 to the signing of the instrument of surrender on the USS Missouri on 2 September 1945.

A report presenting statistics about the population changes that took place in the central cities of the Nation's 212 standard metropolitan statistical areas and their suburban rings between 1960 and 1968. Regional data are provided on population.