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It took tens of thousands of lives and weeks of fighting through the bedeviling Norman hedgerows to capture what remained of the ‘Capital of Ruins’...
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In April 1965, 36 men of Britain’s Parachute Regiment were ambushed in the deep jungle of Borneo by a large force of elite Indonesian soldiers...
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Reflections on the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, and their tragedies and triumphs in battle....
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British Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Louis Vian was one of history’s great fighting commanders, serving with distinction during World War II...
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In 1944, the future baseball star was a young lieutenant who refused to move to the back of a shuttle bus, initiating a series of events that resulted in his court-martial....
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Directed and written by John Boorman, the 1987 film presents World War II as a life-altering adventure for young protagonist Billy Rowan....
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In July 2021 Russia became the most recent nation to join European countries adopting legal measures to stop the spread of Nazi symbols and ideology...
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Nearly 80 years after their C-47 crashed into a mountain in China, the remains of a transport pilot and his fellow crewmen have yet to be recovered. His name was Jimmie Browne and he was my cousin, my neighbor, my role model and my...
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Captured by photographer Herman Schnipper, the USS Astoria endured the three-hour frenzy during the bloody fight for Okinawa...
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The vivid souvenir belonged to an Army Air Corps member who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor....
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A C-47 pilot gives his son a firsthand look at the dangerous missions he flew in flak-filled skies on D-Day and beyond....
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In 1944, the Nazis attempted to vanquish Resistance leader George Guingouin’s rural guerrilla force in the Battle of Mont-Gargan....
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Curators at The National World War II Museum solve readers’ artifact mysteries....
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Believing they were secretly working for Germany, members of a subversive “fifth column” were actually the targets of an extraordinary British intelligence operation. ...
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In the 2013 film "The Eternal Zero," Japanese siblings ponder their late grandfather's life—and his mysterious death.
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As prewar U.S. Army chief of staff, Craig laid the groundwork for his famed successor. ...
