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Declassified Photos Show The US's Final Preparations For The Nuclear Attacks...
On August 6th and 9th of 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing significant death and destruction in both areas. To this day, the...
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A D-Day Veteran Talks About His 4 Weeks In Combat For The First Time
In July 1944, 19-year-old Tom Scardino was wounded twice in one day fighting the Germans in Normandy. Seventy years later, he still finds it too painful to talk about some of the things he saw during...
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Meet The Nazis Who Received Social Security Payments After Being Deported...
Since 1979, at least 38 of 66 suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards forced out of the United States collected millions of dollars in American Social Security payments, an Associated Press...
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Two Sunken Vessels From World War II Were Just Found Off The North Carolina...
A team of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have discovered a pair of historically significant vessels sunk during World War II's Battle of the Atlantic off of...
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Sweden Is Learning Just How Insanely Difficult It Is To Capture An Enemy...
The Swedish military is currently hunting what it has described as a mysterious foreign vessel that is violating the country's territorial waters. Swedish authorities aren't sure what they're looking...
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Report: The US Employed 'At Least 1,000' Nazis After World War II
At least 1,000 former Nazis were recruited by the CIA and FBI to spy on behalf of the United States during the Cold War, The New York Times reported Monday. The article comes ahead of the release of a...
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Someone Stole The Gate That Says 'Work Makes You Free' From The First Nazi...
The gate at the Dachau concentration camp is infamous for a couple of reasons.One is that Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp. The other is its gate, where prisoners were greeted with the...
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America's Oldest Veteran Drinks Whiskey And Smokes Cigars At Age 108
Even at 108 years old, America's oldest living military veteran is enjoying the spotlight on his service and doesn't seem to be slowing down.Richard Overton, an Army veteran of World War II now living...
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The Most Iconic Photo Of World War II Is A Reminder Of How Deadly The Battle...
"Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"— the black and white photo depicting five Marines and a Navy corpsman planting a US flag after a bloody battle for the island — may be the Second World War's most iconic...
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Why The Veterans Of Foreign Wars, The Nation-Wide Network Of US Veterans, Is...
Did I join my local VFW when I returned? Hell no. But here’s why we need a reformed VFW.There was a time when our country assumed no social responsibility for the men they sent to war. These men...
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Check Out The Incredible Armored Trains Of World War I And World War II
Trains may seem pretty mundane in the 21st century, when compared with jet aircraft.These days, trains play a small role in transporting Americans. Things are a bit flashier in Europe and Asia, where...
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This Incredible Graphic Shows The Size Of The World's Largest Armies From...
Mapmaking graphic artist Martin Vargic's has made an amazing graphic tracking the size of the world's largest armies at different points in time. The graphic gives an understanding of the just how...
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The World's Most Wanted Nazi Reportedly Died In Syria While Living Under The...
The world's most wanted Nazi criminal, Adolf Eichmann's second-in-command, died four years ago in Syria at age 98, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said Sunday, citing the testimony of a former German...
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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. Pitchers...
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The World's Most Lethal Rocket-Propelled Grenade That Takes Out Tanks
Apart from the AK-47, no other weapon has graced the world’s television screens more in modern times, than the RPG-7. Officially known in Russian as the Reaktivnoi Protivotankovii Granatomet (Hand...
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Obama Shouldn't Have Fired Chuck Hagel — He Should Have Fired His Secretary...
The firing of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense raises more questions than it answers.Is it correct to blame military failures on the military establishment when the executive has not articulated a...
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Germany Will Try A 93-Year-Old Former Auschwitz Guard
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 93-year old man suspected of being a former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz will be tried in the new year, a German court said on Monday.Nearly 70 years after the end of the...
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Here's How Many 'Super Nukes' American Scientists Thought It Would Take To...
Shortly after the end of World War II, the scientists who developed the atomic bombs dropped on Japan tried to envision the kind of nuclear event that could lead to the destruction of not just cities,...
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The Cure For Syphilis Was Developed As Part Of The US Effort To Win World War II
World War II is the deadliest conflict in history.But the human race still emerged from the war with a few potential advances in hand, among them a cure for syphilis.The bacteria responsible for the...
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US Troops Have Been At War On Christmas Since The Nation's Founding
For those who serve, war is surreal, but celebrating Christmas while in a combat zone can be particularly somber. This time last year, I was on a different continent, and instead of a Santa hat, I wore...
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