World War II (Page 21)

World War II: the global war that defined modern America. We Are The Mighty covers every theater, campaign, and millions of the "Greatest Generation" who served in the war that saved the world.

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The ‘Duck’ was just a truck inside a boat hull – but it worked

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The Peashooter was actually the most advanced fighter of its time

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6 incredible facts about ‘Flying the Hump’ in World War II

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5 things you didn’t know about the Battle of Midway

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This small boat was crucial to D-Day’s success

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The destroyer that took on WWII kamikazes is coming to the big screen

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Why Navy SEALs will storm the beaches of Normandy in 2018

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Germany and Italy also had midget subs in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

This German general told Hitler off in the most satisfying way ever

By Tim Kirkpatrick

These Jewish assassins targeted former Nazis to avenge the Holocaust

By Blake Stilwell

How this World War II icon measures up to the Humvee

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Greyhound packed some serious firepower

By Harold C. Hutchison

Here is how the Allies planned to evacuate wounded before D-Day

By Harold C. Hutchison

Here’s how the angled deck made carriers deadlier

By Harold C. Hutchison

Landing planes on carriers in World War II took a lot of help

By Harold C. Hutchison

How Japan was suckered into revealing Midway was a target

By Harold C. Hutchison

America’s oldest veteran gives you the secrets to life at 112

By Blake Stilwell

4 things you didn’t know about the war epic ‘Saving Private Ryan’

By Tim Kirkpatrick

Here’s how air crews learned to navigate in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

Here’s how America prepared for chemical warfare in World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison

This oiler saved the American carriers at Coral Sea

By Harold C. Hutchison

Bob Hope entertained the troops from WWII to Desert Storm

By Shannon Corbeil

This WWII ace scored kills from every Axis country – and the US

By Blake Stilwell

These were the UK’s massive “earthquake bombs”

This Bearcat has been unjustly overshadowed by history

By Harold C. Hutchison

How the Wildcat held the line against the Zero

By Harold C. Hutchison

A WWII ship that killed 5 brothers when it sank was just found

By Harold C. Hutchison

Watch these airborne veterans sing a paratrooper classic

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is the average gear a soldier in WW2 carried

By Tim Kirkpatrick

The Kiwi fighting man who earned two Victoria Crosses

By James Elphick

The Curtiss Helldiver’s other nickname was way better

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time the Japanese tried to bomb the US using balloons

By Tim Kirkpatrick

This lone soldier saved his company by fighting 100 enemy soldiers

By Blake Stilwell

How the Air Force makes the ‘smell of victory’

By Harold C. Hutchison

This Navy ship scored America’s first submarine kill of WWII

By Harold C. Hutchison

That time Russia used children to spy on a US embassy

By Tim Kirkpatrick

A WWII veteran’s son captures stories left untold in ‘My Father’s War’

By Blake Stilwell

How enemy aircraft get their American nicknames

By Harold C. Hutchison

Blinded by flak shrapnel, this airman helped save his B-17 crew

Tom Hanks is teaming up with Dale Dye for a new D-Day blockbuster

How bombing the crap out of Iwo Jima hurt America’s assault

By Tim Kirkpatrick

New changes to the ‘Pinks and Greens’ will make it the best uniform ever

By Eric Milzarski

5 more of the greatest military heroes you’ve never heard of

How you can be cast in Tom Hanks’ new film as a Navy Crewman

By Eric Milzarski

These ‘Q-ships’ used to fool subs and take torpedoes in both world wars

This soldier took on enemy troops with the sword that took off his arm

By Blake Stilwell

This entire room made of amber was stolen by Nazis before it disappeared forever

US hero Pappy Boyington was on ‘To Tell the Truth’

By Harold C. Hutchison

This is how a Bonaparte heir became a French resistance fighter in WWII

By Eric Milzarski

The time a Nazi submarine captain nominated his enemy for the Victoria Cross

By Harold C. Hutchison

The M16 wasn’t the only rifle that needed cleaning

By Harold C. Hutchison

This designer might be the most important mind in American military history

By Harold C. Hutchison

The Marine Corps’ all-time top fighter plane was a Navy reject

By Harold C. Hutchison

Two daring commandos made a bold New Year’s Eve recon mission

Here is how World War II rationing worked

By Harold C. Hutchison

A French resistance fighter escaped execution with the most impossible prison break

This may be the origin of the ‘Dear John’ letter

By Eric Milzarski

“The Night Witches:” Daring Russian women in obsolete aircraft haunted the Nazis while they slept

By Casie Stilwell

The Navy actually had a training video on how to not kill your friends

By Harold C. Hutchison

This whiskey is a WWII victory, distilled

3 astonishing battles that came to be called ‘Turkey Shoots’

By Harold C. Hutchison

This whiskey pays homage to the men of the 10th Mountain Division

By Tim Kirkpatrick

That time when the USS Missouri gave full honors to a kamikaze pilot

By Tim Kirkpatrick

That time when the Penguin and a President teamed up during World War II

By Harold C. Hutchison