Clik here to view.
Parts of the Marshall Islands are now more radioactive than Chernobyl because...
Chernobyl was one of the worst nuclear disasters the world has ever seen, resulting in widespread contamination throughout Europe.Today, the site is still being cleaned up, but experts say that certain...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The last US Navy warship sunk by a German sub in World War II has finally...
The US Navy warship USS Eagle, a patrol boat sunk off the coast of Maine, has finally been found.The ship went down in April 1945, taking most of its crew with it, and was the last US Navy ship sunk by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 big surprises the Germans got on D-Day
Despite all the preparations involved, the Allied invasion at Normandy in France in 1944 still caught the Germans off guard.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Believe it or not, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The last US Navy warship sunk by a German sub in World War II has finally...
The US Navy warship USS Eagle, a patrol boat sunk off the coast of Maine, has finally been found.The ship went down in April 1945, taking most of its crew with it, and was the last US Navy ship sunk by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Moe Berg went from playing for 5 MLB teams to being a US spy in WWII who...
Morris "Moe" Berg spent 15 years playing major league baseball.His record on the field was middling, but Berg was distinguished by his pursuits off it — namely, his time as a US spy during World War...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What the US's first major WWII offensive in the Pacific teaches us about...
Between late 1942 and 1943, the US fought and won the battle of Guadalcanal, defeating the Japanese with an amphibious landing and a tenacious defense.The triumph in that battle has important lessons...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an...
Albert Einstein was famously a pacifist, but he signed a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 urging him to develop the atomic bomb.Einstein and other leading scientists said they were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poland's right-wing president has approved the seizure of the site of the...
Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a bill allowed his government to seize land at the site of the first battle of World War II for a museum, doing so over the objections of local...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It's been 74 years since Hiroshima — the moment the US deployed the most...
August 6, is the 74th anniversary of the use of the first atomic bomb, dropped by the US on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.5-ton nuclear bomb, named "Little Boy," fell for 44.4 seconds before...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Japan marks 74th anniversary of atomic bombing of Hiroshima with memories of...
Tuesday is the 74th anniversary of the US dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.The bombing killed 140,000 people. Three days later, an atomic bomb dropped on the city Nagasaki killed another 70,000...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here's what the crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay saw after dropping the...
The crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay was among the few to witness the first use of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.They had expected something fierce, but what they saw was still a fearsome and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One of the toughest battles of WWII began 77 years ago — here's 7 things you...
The Guadalcanal campaign during World War II was one of the more savage battles in the Pacific theater.Between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943, tens of thousands of US Marines and soldiers gave...
View ArticleThis rare color photo shows the horrific destruction of the US nuclear bomb...
This rare color photo shows the horrific destruction of the US nuking NagasakiJoin the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: 12 ways HBO changed the Chernobyl story
View Article77 years ago, the US Navy suffered a brutal defeat that stranded thousands of...
77 years ago, the US Navy suffered a brutal defeat that stranded thousands of Marines on GuadalcanalSEE ALSO: 15 photos of the USS Indianapolis, whose World War II sinking started the deadliest shark...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Navy has resurrected a WWII-era tactic so aircraft can talk to ships...
Crew members aboard a US Navy helicopter and the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer tested out an old-fashion method of communication.The "bean-bag message" was used during World War II to communicate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hundreds of thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany were turned away by the US...
The Trump administration is reviving a nearly 140-year-old clause to limit immigration without changing the immigration law.The "public charge" clause of the Immigration Act allows the US to bar...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How a 6th-grade history project exonerated the captain who was blamed for one...
At the end of World War II, the USS Indianapolis sailed into one of the Navy's worst disasters of the war, losing more than two-thirds of its crew after being sunk in the Pacific.The cruiser's captain,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
75 years ago, Allied troops marched into Paris after 4 years of Nazi...
Allied troops rolled into Paris on August 25, 1944, liberating the French capital after more than four years of Nazi occupation.The Associated Press story reprinted below was the first eyewitness...
View ArticleClik here to view.
75 years after liberation, Paris is again celebrating its freedom from the Nazis
The end of August marks 75 years since Allied troops entered Paris and liberated the French capital from four years of Nazi occupation.This year, a number of US troops and former French fighters were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Germany asks for forgiveness as Poland marks the 80th anniversary of the...
World leaders gathered in Poland on Sunday for the 80th anniversary of the 1939 German invasion of Poland, which began World War II.Few places saw death and destruction on the scale of Poland, which...
View Article