A New Hanover High School class ring was found on a dead German solider in World War II. That's where the mystery begins.
A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would survive the war unscathed. On the ...
World War I was the “Great War” before World War II. As a global conflict unfolded in the late 1930s in Europe and Asia, it ...
Jeremiah P. Mahoney was killed in a pitched battle with German forces near Reipertswiller, France, in early 1945. New technology finally brought closure.
Crosley-produced proximity fuses were the first deployed to enemy lines and responsible for the first kill of an enemy aircraft. The world's first smart bomb, produced here in Cincinnati, turned the ...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer traveled to France on Monday to attend Armistice commemorations in Paris, making him the ...
Here, Josh Levine, author of The Secret History of the Blitz and a consultant on the film, talks to TIME about the hardships ...
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A Brief Overview of World War II
The war in Europe began in September 1939 when Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland. Using Blitzkrieg tactics the ...
The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against Germany and occupied territories during ...
Rose DeJesus, 97, could remember her brother Joe Saracino well, mainly that he was like any young man at the time she last saw him.
Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1954, 607 pp. This volume in the official series, "United States Army in World War II," and one of the subseries devoted to the ...