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.
On the 7th of June, 1954, President Harry Truman penned his thoughts regarding the meeting he'd had with his military advisers on the 18th of June, 19...
One of numerous relocation centers, during WWII, the Tule Lake internment camp was also known as a segregation center.
On the 21st of October, 1941, Alan Turing and three of his Station X colleagues wrote a secret letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It caused a...
"Ultra" was the cover-name given to the actual intelligence, obtained from decoding Germany's military messages at Bletchley Park, which was secretly ...
The Quack - a prison guard at Ofuna - seemed to take great pleasure in harming Allied prisoners of war.
Ofuna, a place Louis Zamperini came to know well, was a secret interrogation camp where Japanese officials questioned prisoners of war.
Joe Rosenthal took the original photo depicted in this flag-raising event on Iwo Jimas Mt Suribachi.
In this image we see the USS Hornet (CV-8) soon after she was commissioned. She had a special relationship with the Doolittle Raiders.
The USS Hornet (CV-8) had a special cargo aboard during April of 1942. No one knew for sure if that special cargo - a group of airplanes - could actua...
The USS Indianapolis (CA35) during her last overhaul before departing for Tinian Island with the Hiroshima atomic-bomb components onboard.
After delivering parts of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, the USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sinks in July of 1945. Years later, a 12-year-old school bo...
On the 26th of October, 1942, the USS Juneau (CL-52) was involved in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.
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