Russia buys WWII-era T-34s for propaganda boost as supposed NATO killer T-14...
Russia's 2015 unveiling of the T-14 Armata main battle tank put fear in NATO and represented a bold new design billed as an unstoppable NATO tank killer.But Russia has since scrapped plans to actually...
View ArticleThese American war heroes were overlooked for decades due to race...
On March 18, 2014, President Barack Obama awarded 24 Army veterans with Medals of Honor in a single ceremony.The unusual event honored veterans of World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Korean War who...
View ArticleThe unbelievable story of a Japanese soldier who hid in a jungle cave for 27...
On January 24, 1972, two hunters came across a man setting fishing traps in a river near Talofofo Falls in Guam. The man was later identified as Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier who had been living in...
View Article74 years ago, the Allies beat back the Nazis' last major western offensive —...
On the morning of December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and almost 1,000 tanks drove into the Ardennes forest across an 85-mile stretch of the front line, from southern Belgium to the...
View ArticleOne of World War II's bloodiest battlefields is about to disappear forever
The 1943 Battle of Tarawa was the first of the Central Pacific Campaign. There, 18,000 Marines fought a bloody, 76-hour battle to seize the heavily fortified Tarawa Atoll from 4,500 Japanese defenders,...
View Article75 years ago, Soviet forces broke one of the deadliest sieges in history —...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The Russian city of St. Petersburg is marking the end of the World War II siege by Nazi forces with a large military parade in sprawling Palace Square.Russian President...
View ArticleThese are the US's 9 deadliest wartime enemies
The United States wasn't the most dominant country on Earth from the get-go. For most of our nearly 243-year history, in fact, we lived by the skin of our teeth.It's a relatively recent development...
View ArticleA US flag that led troops to the beach during D-Day will return home 75 years...
ROTTERDAM (Reuters) - A rare D-Day flag that flew on a US Navy ship leading the allied advance at the beaches of Normandy nearly 75 years ago will be returned to America after going on display in the...
View ArticleTrump drew from Putin’s playbook by using WWII as unifying message in State...
President Donald Trump tapped heavily into World War II nostalgia during his State of the Union address in an effort to send a unifying message to Americans. Russian President Vladimir Putin has for...
View ArticleThis scientist is using imaging techniques to rescue sound from the Nazi...
Archivists are working to digitize thousands of old audio recordings of the Nuremberg trials, which will then be released to the public.During the trials, which were held from November 1945 to October...
View ArticleThese are the incredible stories of the WWII veterans recognized by Trump at...
President Donald Trump recognized three World War II veterans during his State of the Union address.The three landed in France 75 years ago during D-Day and fought their way across Europe."Of course,...
View Article12 photos of the Tuskegee Airmen — the historic African-American World War II...
The Tuskegee Airmen were US military aviators who trained at Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama during World War II.African-Americans, previously barred from flying with the US military, were segregated...
View ArticleA WWII US aircraft carrier, lost for 76 years, has been found on the floor of...
A sunken World War II US aircraft carrier that had been lost for more than 76 years was found in the South Pacific Ocean.The USS Hornet played a key role in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo but sank in...
View Article74 years ago, Allied bombers obliterated one of Germany's most beautiful...
World War II was more than three years old when Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and other Allied leaders met at Casablanca in January 1943, but the decisions made there would shape the rest of...
View ArticleThe sailor in iconic photo of a couple kissing to celebrate the end of World...
George Mendonsa, the sailor photographed kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, has died at 95.It took years to confirm that Mendonsa and the woman, Greta Zimmer Friedman, were the people in the...
View ArticleHere's what it looked like when US Marines hit the beach at Iwo Jima 74 years...
The Battle of Iwo Jima kicked off 74 years ago, on Feb. 19, 1945.One of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II, the 35-day fight for the desolate island yielded 27 recipients of...
View ArticleHow the US's massive bombardment of Iwo Jima during World War II made...
The US preceded the invasion of Iwo Jima with massive aerial bombardment.The heavy bombing did significant damage to the surface of the island.This had little effect on the Japanese defenders, and made...
View ArticleThe US is raking in millions by selling World War II-era rifles to civilians
The Civilian Marksmanship Program, a federally chartered nonprofit, has been selling surplus military firearms since 1996.Between 2009 and 2017, the CMP brought in $323 million in revenue from those...
View ArticleMeet the British commando who captured 42 Nazis with a sword
We've talked about British officer John "Mad Jack" Churchill before. He waded ashore on D-Day with his trademark Scottish claybeg sword, he killed at least one Nazi with his longbow, and he was an...
View Article74 years ago, US troops got their first foothold in Nazi Germany — here are 8...
Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of the old Roman town of Remagen, about halfway between Dusseldorf and Frankfurt on the Rhine River, in 1945 was the 1,000-foot, double-track Ludendorff railroad...
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