World War II (Page 20)

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At the Battle of Midway, key decisions shifted tides of war

How a Congressman’s press conference killed 800 US sailors

By Blake Stilwell

These are the Soviet drone tanks of World War II

By Blake Stilwell

Holy sh*t – the new ‘Battlefield V’ trailer is as brutal as the War in the Pacific

By Blake Stilwell

World War II ‘Dazzle Ships’ were painted to attract enemy subs

By Blake Stilwell

German POWs hit the gridiron for the Barbwire Bowl Classic

By Dustin Damon

Everyone lost their minds when a Marine general relieved an Army general

By Blake Stilwell

World War II vets rebuilt an APC to drive through the Iron Curtain

By Blake Stilwell

A Navy captain was relieved for sinking a ship-killing German sub in 1942

By Blake Stilwell

The last stand of 3/395: how one US Army battalion helped win the Battle of the Bulge

This B-17 survived one of the most infamous mid-air collisions of WW2

By Shannon Corbeil

Sitting down with the author of Task Force Baum, a dramatic retelling of an ill-fated rescue mission during World War II

By Christopher Otero

75th Anniversary: 10 things you don’t know about the Battle of Iwo Jima

One of Pearl Harbor’s last survivors dies at age 97

WATCH: One of the last living Marines from Iwo Jima shares his story with WATM

By Jessica Manfre

World War II battleship Wisconsin celebrates 76th birthday

By Jessica Manfre

This one-man army was Britain’s classiest World War II veteran

By Blake Stilwell

This two-line order to Eisenhower defines modern leadership

Airships were surprisingly hard to shoot down in World War II

By Blake Stilwell

The revolutionary fuse that won World War II

That time when Green Berets who avenged 9/11 on horseback recreated this legendary WWII jump

By Blake Stilwell

This admiral might be the bluest falcon that ever lived

This Pacific battle was the worst 37 minutes in US Navy history

This is the truth behind the creepy Philadelphia Experiment

By Shannon Corbeil

The M1A1 Abrams is a beast, but these tanks are monsters

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The unsung African-American heroes of D-Day

By Miguel Ortiz

This is how early World War II cluster bombs worked

By Harold C. Hutchison

Former Delta Force members jump in honor of Normandy Paratroopers

This pilot crashed his plane into a torpedo to save the carrier

Watch this actual combat footage from the Battle of the Philippine Sea

Audie Murphy: American war hero, actor, advocate

Christopher Lee: Film Legend and World War II Hero

The last surviving head of state to serve during WWII is … Queen Elizabeth II?

That time a WWII bomber pilot climbed onto the wing mid-flight to save his crew

By Blake Stilwell

How the Battle of the Bulge would have gone if GIs had the Javelin

By Harold C. Hutchison

Here’s the blistering effect American World War II ammo had on the enemy

By Harold C. Hutchison

World War II Coast Guard veteran turns 100

By Jessica Manfre

A 60-year-old D-Day veteran beat Special Forces climbing Pointe du Hoc

A flamethrower is the last living Medal of Honor recipient from the Pacific

By Blake Stilwell

Veteran who spent 421 days as a prisoner of war turns 100

By Jessica Manfre

These insane defenses allow Switzerland to remain neutral

By Today I Found Out

This Nazi army was made entirely of Soviet POWs

That time the RAF bombed a POW camp with an artificial leg

Watch the 1950 Navy explain ‘vertical envelopment’

This film is the beautiful story of a WWII romance told through love letters

By Blake Stilwell

Here’s how World War II pilots flew the famous C-47 Skytrain

By Harold C. Hutchison

These are Frank Capra’s best World War II film works

By Harold C. Hutchison

This American-built King Cobra was passed on to the Russians

By Harold C. Hutchison

This European city has been destroyed by invaders 44 times

By Blake Stilwell

This ‘demi-brigade’ is the Foreign Legion’s World War II pride

This ‘wooden shoe’ was really a deadly anti-personnel mine

By Harold C. Hutchison

Thousands more died in the Nazi blitz due to ignored spy reports

A cut-off Japanese garrison wiped out this endangered bird

By Harold C. Hutchison

The secret plan to firebomb Japan before Pearl Harbor

8 things you didn’t know about the Solomons campaign

By Harold C. Hutchison

5 things you didn’t know about ‘Band of Brothers’

By Tim Kirkpatrick

How this storied Marine raid came back to bite America

By Harold C. Hutchison

Why the US used an island-hopping campaign in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

How World War II pilots briefed missions is similar to today

By Harold C. Hutchison

This bomber originally beat the iconic B-17 in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

This historic film shows the Lone Survivor raid of World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

The best American tank of World War II rarely saw combat

By Harold C. Hutchison

Thieves drained the bank account of the US’ oldest living veteran

By Blake Stilwell

This is the flower that marked a German soldier as being elite

By Tim Kirkpatrick