Still, today, we are learning more about the horro...  ...today, we are learning more about the horrors of World War II . We Americans studied it in school from texts wri...  ...nd the Russians hated each other fiercely. As the war came to a close in 1945, and the Soviet troops pu...  ...troops pushed into Germa...

Railway use ramped up even before the US entered World War II , because the war in Europe was interrupting shipping lanes, so mor...  ...shipping lanes, so more cargo went by train. Then wartime gasoline rationing caused an uptick in passengers...  ...hese women were photogra...

(Photos: Southern Arizona Guide)This is Bad Angel,...  ...Air and Space Museum in Pima, Arizona. Like many World War II aircraft, it has kill markings on the side. Do yo...  ...hat it was in enemy possession.So Curdes tried to warn him off, first through radio, then through visual...

Beneath the White Cliffs of Dover in southern Engl...  ...ombed within Dover’s famous White Cliffs, a wartime relic lost to time. But when the National Trust a...

(Photo: Ezra Wolfinger/Israel Antiquities Authorit...  ...red and buried about 100,000 people. Later in the war , as the Red Army began to push the Germans out of...  ...Germans pursued the escapees, but 11 survived the war .Recently, archaeologists used electrical resistiv...  ...the discovery of the tunnel, ca...

Yang Kyoungjong was born in Korea in 1920. His ext...  ...captors. The U.S. doesn’t do that, and the war was almost over anyway. That might have been the...  ...he complete story of his globetrotting service in World War II . -via reddit

Europe was devastated by World War II , and recovery afterward was slow. Journalist and...  ...year, Andre Picard, a French railroad worker and war veteran suggested that France reciprocate by send...

Act stupid? Shoot, I don't even have to act. It just comes naturally!The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1944, it published a sabotage manual that was distrib...

It was a complete fantasy, of course. Even the Pearl Harbor raid was the end of the logistical reach of the Imperial Japanese Navy. But that didn't stop newspapers from boosting circulation by convincing American readers...

(Image: Mike Licht)Are you frustrated that you los...  ...to the experience of daylight saving time during World War II . The belligerent nations often thought that addin...  ...nd decrease electricity expenditures. Winning the war necessitated maximizing this possible gain to the...  ...decided to keep the prac...