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.
This map depicts the areas of significant German defenses along the Omaha Beach front.
After the war was over, and Robert Leckie returned from his tour of duty in the Pacific, he married Vera Keller.
Chuichi Nagumo was a torpedo specialist and commanded the carrier strike force which attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
This clip is from Eye of Vichy (L'oeil de Vichy) - by Claude Chabrol and narrated by Brian Cox (in the English version) - a documentary compiling hist...
A documentary clip about how the Vichy government collaborated with Hitler during the war.
To aid in the capture of Cherbourg, an important French port where Germany had radar stations, the Allies had to create an artificial harbor which the...
Germany frequently used mobile launchers (instead of fixed sites) for the V-2, making it very difficult for Allied bombers to find - and eliminate - l...
Lt. General Walter Krueger was head of the U.S. Sixth Army in late 1943.
Japanese officials, who feared an Allied invasion of Palawan Island (in the Philippines) ordered a massacre of American servicemen during December of ...
Image of a photograph depicting the inner city of Warsaw burning following massive bombing in September, 1939.
As Hitler's troops systematically destroyed Warsaw, it was becoming clear that Stalin also wanted the Poles crushed.
Streets became ravines in the massively damaged Warsaw as Poles faced the mounting consequences of their resistance.
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