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I toured the only remaining German submarine captured by the US during World War II. Take a look inside.
On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...
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The First World War, in Sharp Focus
During the war, the Thuilliers’ yard became a makeshift studio. Eventually, they painted a backdrop featuring classical ...
‘Utterly foolish’: 12 hours before World War II ended, the US firebombed this Japanese city
Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...
The French Riviera becomes a 'paradise for American soldiers' after World War II
To boost troop morale and keep an eye on postwar reconstruction, the US Army requisitioned dozens of hotels across southern ...
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A New History of World War II
Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...
With America at war, Alabama had no football team in ’43
Cary Cox and Holt Rast were teammates at Alabama in the late 1930s, and later served with distinction in the U.S. Army during ...
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On one of WW2’s deadliest air routes, pilots’ biggest fear was surviving a crash – here’s why
Journalist Caroline Alexander uncovers the stories of those who flew ‘the Hump’ – a little-known Allied supply mission that ...
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War, geopolitics, energy crisis: how the economy evades every disaster
Although today’s dangers are not in the same league as a world war, they are significant. Pundits talk of a “polycrisis” ...
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A new documentary highlights one of the most surreal events of World War II: The “Atomic Bowl”
In 1946, the US organized a football game featuring a pro fullback and a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in the ruins of ...
David Brooks: America’s response to the new Cold War is weak and self-defeating. We can do better
A normal country would be strengthening friendships with all nations not named China, but the United States is burning ...
Remembering the Life of Louis Zamperini, Olympian and World War II Hero
Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...
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World War I Fast Facts
Here’s some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Causes of World War I The assassination of Archduke Franz ...