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5 Momentous Military Events That Took Place On Christmas Day
Christmas is one of the most celebrated holidays on earth. But that doesn't mean that conflicts simply freeze every December 25th. Here's a look at some of the major military events that have fallen on...
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Poland Is Looking For A Submarine It Lost In World War II
Two Polish teams will search this year for the Polish submarine ORP Orzel, which disappeared in the North Sea in May 1940 during a mission with the Allies in World War II.The two searches will be...
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The Only Known Handwritten Manuscript By Code-Breaking Genius Alan Turing Is...
NEW YORK (AP) — A handwritten notebook by Alan Turing, the World War II code-breaking genius depicted by Benedict Cumberbatch in the Oscar-nominated "The Imitation Game," is going on the auction...
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Soviet Soldier Describes What It Was Like To Liberate Auschwitz
It was the silence, the smell of ashes and the boundless surrounding expanse that struck Soviet soldier Ivan Martynushkin when his unit arrived in January 1945 to liberate the Nazi death camp at...
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Moving Photos Of Survivors Of Auschwitz, 70 Years After The Concentration...
January 27th marks the 70th anniversary of the Red Army's liberation of the infamous Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.An estimated 1.1 million people, most of them Jewish, were killed behind the...
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Here's What America Would Be Like If The Nazis And Japanese Had Won WWII
Amazon Studios most likely has another hit with "The Man In The High Castle," one of many pilots being screened to Prime members. The show is smart, fun, and polished, and it sports a five-star user...
View ArticleThis Haunting Drone Footage Shows An Empty Auschwitz 70 Years After The Camp...
The BBC on Tuesday flew a drone over Auschwitz — 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops.The haunting video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it stands today and the drone...
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Here's The Weather Prediction That Won WWII
German military leaders expected an Allied invasion on the Channel coast in late May, 1944, when there was high tide, a full moon, good visibility, and little wind. When it did not come, and when the...
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Some of Alan Turing's notes that helped beat the Nazis have been found
Alan Turing's top secret documents that helped work out what the Nazis were up to during World War II would probably be the last thing you'd expect to find in the walls of an old hut. But that's...
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Germany tells Greece there is 'zero' chance it is going to pay World War II...
Germany said on Monday there was "zero" chance it would pay World War II reparations to Athens, following a renewed demand from Greece's new leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.Tsipras, on Sunday in...
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The last surviving officer from a bombed Pearl Harbor battleship dies at 100
The last surviving officer of the USS Arizona, the ship that was bombed in the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at 100 at a nursing facility in Northern California, his son said on...
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Germany to mark 70 years since the WWII bombing of Dresden, now a hub of...
Berlin (AFP) - Seventy years ago Allied bombing laid waste to the historic German city of Dresden, whose post-war image as a symbol of peace has been dented recently by anti-Islamic protests.President...
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Germany just charged a 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard with 170,000 counts...
BERLIN (AP) — A German court says a 93-year-old man has been charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as an SS guard at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp in occupied...
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Here's what it looked like when US Marines landed at Iwo Jima 70 years ago today
The Battle of Iwo Jima kicked off 70 years ago, on Feb. 19, 1945.One of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre of World War II, the 35-day fight for the desolate island yielded 27 recipients of...
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The story of a Medal of Honor recipient killed at Iwo Jima 70 years ago
“Never fear your enemy but always respect them.” — Gunnery Sgt. John BasiloneSeventy years ago, on February 19, Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone was killed in action during the battle of Iwo Jima and...
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The forgotten female physicist who played a crucial role in the Manhattan...
If you think of bespectacled white men like J. Robert Oppenheimer when you think of the Manhattan Project, you're not alone. But you're also missing out on a critical part of the equation.In fact, one...
View ArticleThese are the incredible armored trains of World War I and World War II
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70 years ago, a relatively-unknown photographer took the most iconic war...
The raising of the US flag atop Mount Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima 70 years ago is perhaps the most iconic image of World War Two.No other picture so succinctly and evocatively captures...
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World War II's most iconic photo is a reminder of how deadly the battle for...
"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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Japan's Shinzo Abe doesn't know what to say in what may be his most important...
TOKYO (AP) — Diplomatically speaking, they may be the most important words Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe utters this year.So much so that he convened a panel of experts this week to advise him on...
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