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A British submarine that vanished during WWII has finally been found
The British submarine HMS Urge left Malta in late April 1942, bound for Egypt.The Urge never made it, and the subs final resting place remained a mystery until now.Visit Business Insider's homepage for...
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A 22-year-old Instagram influencer says kids should learn less about World...
Instagram influencer Freddie Bentley is arguing that World War II education has gone too far.He said that students nowadays should learn less about World War II and more about climate change and...
View ArticleInside the factory where army veterans make 7 million poppies every year
The factory makes 7 million poppies every year.Army veterans are employed to work inside the factory.Poppies are worn every year to remember those who have given their lives in conflicts around the...
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A US cargo ship carrying 1,400 tonnes of TNT that sank at the end of the...
A cargo ship wrecked at the end of London's River Thames in 1944 with 1,400 tonnes of TNT inside is posing a threat to the local area.SS Richard Montgomery ran aground on a sandbank near Sheerness, 45...
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14 photos from Kristallnacht, the violent 'Night of Broken Glass' that...
Kristallnacht, also called the "Night of Broken Glass," was the start of a violent campaign launched on German Jewish people by Nazis on November 9, 1938. The violence included torching synagogues,...
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A Chinese land deal in the Pacific is disrupting access to one of WWII's most...
Visitors have been blocked from a battlefields on Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, after a deal that handed control of the land to a Chinese-run company.The issue has stirred debate in the Solomons...
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75 years after his last mission, a WWII bomber pilot describes the 'sheer...
The US Army Air Force's Eighth Air Force sustained staggering casualties flying over Europe during World War II — by war's end, more than 47,000 of the 115,000 US Army Air Force casualties were from...
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76 years after 'the toughest battle in Marine Corps history,' the fallen are...
The battle for Tarawa, regarded as one of the fiercest in Marine Corps history, ended 76 years ago, on November 23, 1943.More than 1,000 Marines and sailors were killed, and several hundred of them...
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World War II forts that once protected the UK from German bombs now stand...
The Maunsell Army and Navy forts were built and placed in the Thames Estuary in 1942 to help protect London from airstrikes and sea raids during World War II. After the war, the forts became the...
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The International Skating Union is really sorry for including an...
Russian figure skater Anton Shulepov wore a costume that featured a Star of David and elements of Auschwitz guard uniforms during a routine to the theme of "Schindler's List" in November at am...
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Unforgettable Photos From The Attack On Pearl Harbor, 73 Years Ago Today
      December 7, 1941 began as a perfect Sunday morning for the troops serving the US fleet at Pearl Harbor.Under a early morning South Pacific sun, softball teams were lining up on the beach....
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The Navy created incredible photos comparing Pearl Harbor today to the day of...
The Japanese navy attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbor 78 years ago, bringing the US into World War II with a devastating blow.Now it's possible to compare Pearl Harbor's idyllic settings with the...
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A Tuskegee airman flew to an Air Force base to celebrate his 100th birthday...
Col. Charles McGee, a retired Air Force pilot and a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, celebrated his 100th birthday by piloting a private jet on Friday.McGee flew 409 combat missions in World War II, the...
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Army divers wore gear from the 1940s to inter a Pearl Harbor survivor on the...
One of just a few remaining survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona was interred in its wreckage on the 78th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harvor.Divers brought the remains of Lauren Bruner...
View ArticleWe asked an ex-SAS special forces soldier to rate 11 military movie scenes...
Mark "Billy" Billingham spent 27 years in the military in the Parachute Regiment, with the Special Air Service (SAS) as a Mountie troop leader, sniper, and jungle warfare instructor.Since leaving the...
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75 years after the Battle of the Bulge, members of the Army's 101st Airborne...
Seventy-five years ago, the Battle of the Bulge began with a massive Germans advance into Belgium, sending US troops reeling.Some descendants of the US troops caught in that fight are still in uniform,...
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9 WWII-era weapons that are still needed on today's urban battlefield
Modern armies are largely unprepared and ill-equipped to fight in citiesWhile that skill set and the tools for it have fallen out of style, there were a number of weapons on the battlefield during...
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4 sports icons who fought in the Battle of the Bulge
After the US joined World War II, the war effort consumed American industry.That included the professional sports industry, and a number of well-known athletes left to serve or served before returning...
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Trump sided with Turkey and blocked Congress' bipartisan effort to recognize...
Amid heightened tensions with Turkey, the Trump administration is rejecting bipartisan efforts in Congress to formally recognize the Armenian genocide.The Senate last week passed a resolution...
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The Army and the Pentagon commemorated the Battle of the Bulge with a large...
The US Army and the Department of Defense posted a large, color photo of Nazi officer and war criminal Joachim Peiper, who massacred captured US troops, in Facebook posts commemorating the Battle of...
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