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Tom Brokaw's 'The Greatest Generation' is an incredible collection of stories...
In "The Greatest Generation," Tom Brokaw writes about the generation who grew up during the Great Depression and the Second World War."It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever...
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US and Norwegian troops reenacted a successful WWII special forces operation...
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of a successful sabotage campaign against the Nazis, members of the Minnesota National Guard reenacted the mission in Snaasa, Norway, the US Army reports.The...
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Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen says he found a huge Japanese WWII ship at the...
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen says he has found the Imperial Japanese Navy's biggest warship at the bottom of the sea in the Philippines, 70 years after US forces sank it.Allen posted a photo on...
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Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen announced that he has discovered Musashi, a World War II Japanese battleship that was sunk by US forces over 7o years ago. Allen and his research team...
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The real life WWII spy who may have inspired a famous Bond girl
Krystyna Skarbek, also known by the alias Christine Granville, was a Polish woman-turned-British spy who had a remarkable espionage career. Not only do some say that Winston Churchill dubbed her his...
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These charts helped US troops identify enemy aircraft during World War II
Distinguishing between friendly and enemy forces can be difficult in war, and World War II posed its own basic battlefield challenges. US soldiers — most of whom were conscripted men who might not have...
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70 years on, Japan and the US remember an epic Iwo Jima battle
When Yoshitaka Shindo was a boy, he did not hear much from his family about his grandfather Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the Japanese troops who fought in the bloody battle of Iwo Jima.The...
View ArticleAn unexploded World War II bomb has been found in London
An unexploded German World War II bomb has been found in London, NBC News reports citing London police and fire officials. The unexploded bomb was found in the Bermondsey district of South London,...
View ArticleWe went inside a secret basement under Grand Central that was one of the...
Hidden ten stories below Grand Central Terminal, a secret basement can be found. This basement was a prime New York City target during World War II, as it provided electricity for northeast trains...
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All of the ways US intelligence thought Hitler may try to disguise himself
Fearful that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler would attempt to flee Germany, US intelligence tried to predict what the Führer would like if he altered his appearance.The Office of Strategic Services, a...
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How this letter from a genius pacifist inspired the US to build the most...
A month before World War II, German-born genius Albert Einstein wrote a two-page letter that launched the US into a nuclear arms race against the Nazis.In the 1939 letter, Einstein warned President...
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American prisoners of war in Japan were used for live experiments during...
A university museum in Japan has broken a seven-decade taboo on discussing the dissection of live US prisoners of war by medical personnel towards the end of the Second World War.The museum opened on...
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Anne Frank probably died earlier than anyone thought
Anne Frank, the young Jewish teenager whose diary became one of the most iconic portrayals of the Holocaust, likely died about a month earlier than her official death date, a new historical analysis...
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Greece is demanding 279 billion euros in Nazi-era reparations from Germany
The Greek government confirmed late Monday the amount of money it believed the country was owed by Germany in reparations for Nazi era-crimes: €278.8 billion ($303 billion).That total is larger than...
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Why France's World War II defense failed so miserably
France suffered a notoriously quick defeat at the hands of its German neighbor in World War II.The country capitulated just six weeks after Hitler's land invasion began on May 10, 1940.France had a...
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Hitler created the largest gun ever, and it was a total disaster
Eager to invade France, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler demanded a new weapon that could easily pierce the concrete fortifications of the French Maginot Line— the only major physical barrier standing between...
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SS 'accountant of Auschwitz' going on trial in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Hedy Bohm had just turned 16 when the Nazis packed her and her parents onto a cattle car in May 1944 and sent them from Hungary to the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland.After three...
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Explorers finally found a World War II ship sunk 64 years ago by an atomic...
The USS Independence aircraft carrier, which operated during World War II, has been located about a half mile underwater off California's Farallon Islands.Using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)...
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Haunting pictures of the decaying WWII 'pillbox' bunkers that remind Europe...
As conflict in World War II ramped up, both the Nazi and Allied forces raced to fortify their shores from invading troops. They built thousands of structures, from simple rudimentary "pillboxes," small...
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Putin's favorite biker gang denied entry to Poland on their way to celebrate...
A Russian nationalist biker gang loyal to President Vladimir Putin will not be allowed to enter Poland as part of a ride it plans to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi...
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