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.
In August of 1944, Poles in Warsaw decided to massively resist German forces still in their city.
An American Marine found a briefcase on Saipan containing nothing but information regarding Amelia Earhart. Was it her briefcase? If so, how did it ge...
This image depicts the Katyusha BM-13 rocket launcher.
During the attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS West Virginia was badly damaged.
When President Truman attended the Potsdam Conference, at the conclusion of WWII in Europe, he stayed in a home which people called "The Little White ...
William J. O'Brien recounts the banzai attack at Saipan.
During WWII, the federal government urged American women to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and become what was known as a WAAC.
Beyond rationing gas for their cars, people helped in the war effort by removing their metal car bumpers and replacing them with wooden ones.
Had the war not ended when it did, the ME-262 would surely have had a major impact on the Allies' ability to stop Hitler.
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was a heavy bomber, with a significant flying range, used by America and its Allies during World War II.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, has a very moving memorial to children lost in the war.
Prisoners at Cabantuan who were deathly ill were cared-for at 0" Ward.
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