Female combat pilots were virtually unheard of bef...  ...le combat pilots were virtually unheard of before World War II , and while the Women Airforce Service Pilots were...  ...o, they became a crucial Soviet asset in winning World War II .The Germans nicknamed them the Nachthexen, or &ld...  ...a sweeping b...

During World War II , consumer goods were restricted so that materials...  ...controlled Southeast Asia, where the bulk of the world ’s rubber was produced.) Hoping to avoid ser...

Winston Churchill is one of those historical figur...  ...c time period, and Winston's time will forever be World War II .But prior to the World Wars Churchill was already on the road to becoming a l...  ...a London newspaper. He subsequently served as a *strong class="matc...

The Olympic Games were canceled in 1940 and 1944 d...  ...ympic Games were canceled in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II , but athletic competitions went on just the same...  ...e -in POW camps. The German POW camp called Oflag II -C camp staged what they called the Woldenberg Oly...

Nicholas Alkemade was a World War II gunner in the Royal Air Force. In March of 1944,...  ...uad flew to Berlin on a raid in an Avro Lancaster II aircraft named Werewolf. Alkemade was in the rear...  ...lus three horrific industrial accidents after the war . Read Nicholas Alkema...

The ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff was built as a cruise liner in 1937, then repurposed as a hospital ship for the German navy in 1939. In 1945 it was pressed into service for Operation Hannibal, transporting both German milit...

Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean 72 years ago, a Jap...  ...bomb used in Hiroshima that brought an end to the war in the Pacific, according to the Naval History an...

During World War I, the military needed enough food to fight, and...  ...American way of life. So when the U.S. joined in World War II , ice cream went with them.In 1942, as Japanese to...  ...with ice cream, and how the frozen treat went to war...

These guys aren't in a zeppelin; that's a photo pr...  ...he photo is a stark contrast to the horror of the war to come.These military portraits collected by Chr...  ...e photographs range in time from the beginning of World War I to the close of ...

Wars always produce heroes, and World War II was no exception. WWII heroes vary from the well-...  ...time of the German Occupation in 1940. Before the war , he had run a small electronics business, and aft...  ...d run a small electronics business, and after the *strong cla...