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In 1945, eighty years ago, no one knew how World War II would end
Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...
Discovery of Unexploded World War II Bomb Halts Paris Trains and Eurostar
The police successfully defused the explosive device, which weighs more than 1,000 pounds and was found near tracks north of ...
10 Best World War II Shows, Ranked
World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, and is a topic that is popular in the media. The primary reasons ...
Kansas City Star on MSN7d
Divers’ discovery of World War II plane crash leads to ID of US soldier, officials say
A 2019 discovery by Danish divers found the wreck in the depth of the Baltic Sea, leading excavators to later pull evidence ...
Foreign Affairs2d
Two Books on U.S. Doctors During World War II
These two books describe how American doctors were linked to troubling events during World War II that raised thorny moral issues around medicine and war.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN11d
Remains of Bomber Pilot Identified 80 Years After His Plane Went Down During World War II
Herbert G. Tennyson was a U.S. Army pilot on a B-24 nicknamed "Heaven Can Wait," which crashed into the ocean in early 1944 ...
Chip Chick on MSN7d
Audrey Hepburn Became A Spy During World War II
You may know Audrey Hepburn as one of Hollywood’s most celebrated actresses. In the 1950s and ’60s, she became a […] ...
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women ...
An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...
'By bribery, by bluff, by corrupting officials': How Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jewish people during World War Two
The story of Schindler's heroism became a novel and a film. But in 1982, author Thomas Keneally told the BBC that this was ...
The role of Rosie the Riveters and the Black women who helped win World War II
Few know the significant role millions of women played during World War II efforts. Those women were called Rosie the ...
Today’s obituary: Doreen Carista, 101, was a ‘Land Girl’ in England during World War II
In her obituary, Doreen Carista’s adult children wrote that their “beloved” mother’s life story “reads like a novel.” They ...