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They Were Expendable
Sink the Bismarck
The Enemy Below
From Hell to Eternity (not from Here to Eternity which is itself a formidable picture but not strictly a WW II picture)
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
Of course one regrets leaving out To Hell and Back, Guadalcanal Diary, Run Silent Run Deep, A Bridge too Far, Europa Europa and many others.
But not Das Boot which I find a cloying piece of maudlin revisionist German self-pity, much like the despicable movie Stalingrad, in which the perpetrators of the war seek to portray themselves as it's innocent victims, the German myth of "clean hands". Downfall is a much more honest German look at things and come to think of it probably belongs right up there with the best pictures about the war.
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