With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, Commander of the USSRs 62nd Army, was at Stalingrad during one of the worlds most-deadly battles.
Attending the Potsdam Conference in Europe, President Truman wanted to avoid dropping an atomic bomb over Japan until he had left the meetings.
This image depicts an original page from President Trumans diary for the 17th of June, 1945.
Filipino and American prisoners of war, captured by Japan's Imperial forces, endured incredibly difficult conditions during the Bataan Death March.
Donna Rachele Mussolini had five children with her flamboyant husband, Benito. She, however, preferred to stay out of the limelight.
Lt. Col. James ("Jimmy") Doolittle and his crew ran out of fuel after their bombing run over Japan's home islands.
Operation Uranus proved to be a brilliant rescue plan for the city of Stalingrad. It led to the defeat of Hitler's forces in the Russian city.
In March of 1945, pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group - some of the Tuskegee Airmen who'd received their flight training at Tuskegee Institute - escorte...
One of the 99th's first missions was to participate in action over the island of Pantelleria, in the Mediterranean, when they escorted bombers during ...
Red Tails, a story about African-Americans who flew for their country during WWII, is a story about racial prejudice and how a group of brave men achi...
During the Battle of Saipan, members of the U.S. military rescue a dying infant.
The "Judenrat" of the Warsaw Ghetto (Jewish people in charge of the ghetto) were given a "resettlement" order on the the 22nd of July, 1942.
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