Tagged With World War II

6 key moments in history that made Silicon Valley the tech capital of the world, according to a historian

Mary Meisenzahl

A photographer captures powerful portraits of World War II veterans to honour their stories

Darcy Schild

During WWII, the US Army did a massive survey to get soldiers' uncensored opinions — here's what they said

Christopher Woody

Trump defends abandoning the Kurds by saying they didn't help the US in WWII

John Haltiwanger

There's a new round of tensions between the US, NATO, and Russia, and that means there's a new battle brewing in the Atlantic

Christopher Woody

How a meat truck driver helped solve one of WWII's most enduring mysteries

Áine Cain

Vintage photos show what life was like in America's first suburb in the '50s

Frank Olito

Russia and Poland are sniping at each other on Twitter over who actually invaded Poland in WWII

Ellen Ioanes

Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Here's what he said.

Sinéad Baker

Parts of the Marshall Islands are now more radioactive than Chernobyl because of US nuclear tests

Aria Bendix

'The most intimidating minute I have ever spent': The first nuclear weapon test was 74 years ago — here's what it was like to watch the 'shocking' explosion

Tom Porter

Hundreds of scholars called on Holocaust museum in DC to stop rejecting 'concentration camp' comparisons with US's detention of migrants

Joseph Zeballos-Roig

A 94-year-old who missed his graduation to go fight in WWII finally got his diploma and walked at commencement 76 years later

Lauren Frias

Trump calls Pelosi 'Nervous Nancy' before a somber D-Day commemoration at an American cemetery in Normandy

Eliza Relman

Meet the Navy veteran who hit the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, and then went island-hopping in the Pacific

Max Lonzanida, Hampton Roads Naval Museum

One of first soldiers to charge the beach on D-Day was a Canadian bagpiper, who said he only survived because German snipers thought he was too crazy to shoot

Beatrice Christofaro

Photos of D-Day 75-year memorials show World War II jeeps, fighter planes, and parachuting veterans in Normandy

Alexandra Ma

5 legendary speeches delivered on D-Day's blood-stained battlefields and beyond over 75 years

John Haltiwanger

Godzilla was birthed from the devastation in Japan after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Here's how a real fishing-boat disaster inspired the fictional monster.

Nathaniel Lee

US Green Berets honouring their WWII past just dropped into one of the world's most stunning places

Ryan Pickrell