Tens of thousands of prisoners of war captured by Australian and Allied troops during WW2 were shipped to Australia. For ...
The Polish pope, canonized by Francis in 2014, demonstrated throughout his life that faith and peaceful resistance could ...
Gerri Eisenhauer's father, Army Pvt. William Walters, was shipped off to World War II before she was even born. In 1944, her ...
In March 1945, U.S. Army Air Forces intensified their strategic bombing campaign over Japan. Instead of flying high-altitude ...
In the first week of May, following Adolph Hitler’s suicide on April 30, the Nazi regime collapsed. Berlin fell to the Soviets, and Axis armies in Italy gave up. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered, ...
As Japanese guns on Peleliu blazed, 19-year-old Matt Gutman steered his boatload of Marines toward the beach and hoped he ...
When I was a kid, I’d read every book I could talk my dad into giving me. He turned me into a voracious reader with every ...
The location was a “heavily sedimented” extinct volcano in the Palau National Marine Sanctuary, about 4,700 miles southwest ...
Kingwood native and former West Virginia University mine engineering student were laid to rest next to those of his parents ...
They confounded Japanese military cryptologists during World War II and participated in all assaults the Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and ...
John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II based on the tribe’s native language, has ...