Tagged With World War II

How 'the first Pearl Harbour' convinced the Japanese they could pull off a similar attack on the US

Benjamin Brimelow

Japan built monster plane-carrying subs to attack US cities during World War II, but they never fired a shot

Benjamin Brimelow

Florida police detective buys a $1,000 Purple Heart to try and reunite it with its owners

David Choi

How the most successful submarine in US Navy history ended up sinking itself

Benjamin Brimelow

Why the biggest battle in naval history was also the last hurrah for the battleship

Benjamin Brimelow

A painting stolen by Nazi looters was returned to a Jewish family 87 years after it was taken

Kelly McLaughlin

A survey of 11,000 Americans ages 18 to 39 has found a 'worrying lack of basic Holocaust knowledge'

Sinéad Baker

76 years ago, the Allies launched the largest airborne attack ever — here's how it all went wrong

Benjamin Brimelow

The secret WWII mission that had US bombers flying at treetop height deep inside Nazi-occupied Europe

Katie Sanders, Mara Truslow

How the Nazis developed a 'wonder weapon' that the Allies couldn't stop and changed the face of future wars

Benjamin Brimelow

Meet the small group of elite British commandos who went deep behind enemy lines early in World War II

Stavros Atlamazoglou

As US planes bombed Japan in World War II, the Japanese sent balloons across the ocean to try to set the US on fire

Benjamin Brimelow

2 years before D-Day, the Allies tried to invade Nazi-occupied Europe — they failed miserably

Benjamin Brimelow

US Navy amphibious assault ship sails into Hawaii with flight deck loaded up with World War II warbirds

Ryan Pickrell

Trump said the 1918 Spanish flu 'probably ended' World War II, which did not begin until 21 years after that pandemic

Lauren Frias

A 96-year-old World War II veteran who was named Italy's oldest college student just graduated at the top of his class

Zoë Ettinger

A 93-year-old former SS guard was convicted of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder in what could be one of history's last Nazi trials

Zoë Ettinger

Scientists describe setting off the world's first nuclear bomb 75 years ago: No one 'even raised the possibility that what we were doing might be morally wrong'

Aria Bendix

9 weddings that marked major moments in history

Kate Macchi

75 years ago, the US's largest invasion in the Pacific may have prevented an even bigger fight with the Japanese

Benjamin Brimelow