(Photos: Kecko, Pascal Binczak)Nazi Germany covete...  ...the Swiss were largely spared from the ravages of World War II .This was in part because the Swiss made thoughtfu...

This photograph, which was taken 70 years ago toda...  ...rm the basis of the design of the US Marine Corps War Memorial outside of Washington, D.C.

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...to History Again.Saving the forgotten soldiers of World War II .Nearly everybody knows about the bombing of Pearl...  ...Hitler’s concentration camps deserve their worldwide infamy, did you know that Allied troops in Philip...  ...ered starvation, t...

Learning a lesson from the venereal disease epidem...  ...disease epidemic among military personnel in Word War I, the U.S. government wanted to take no chances...  ...the U.S. government wanted to take no chances in World War II . They enlisted artists, designers, and advertisin...  ...ook Protect Yourself: Ven...

Born in poverty and orphaned as a teenager in Hunt...  ...ieutenant at the age of 19. Before the end of the war , Murphy would earn every combat award offered by...  ...et 21 years old. He was also tremendously famous ( warning : auto-play). When he mustered out and returned ho...

Pollsters asked French citizens who contributed th...  ...ontributed the most to the defeat of the Nazis in World War II . The poll was conducted in 1945, then repeated in...  ...olled in 1994 and 2004 were not around during the war , and what they know was learned in classrooms and...  ...million soldiers of th...

View image | gettyimages.comIn 1899, a young Belg...  ...main a soldier.Carton de Wiart served in the Boer War , World War One and World War Two. In the process he was shot in the face, losi...  ...

(Photo of the U-166 by the Ocean Exploration Trust...  ...ed him of command, and sent him to anti-submarine warfare school for retraining.Now, 72 years later, Captai...

The USS Barb was a Gato-class submarine operated b...  ...by the United States in the Pacific Ocean during World War II . Under the leadership of Commander Eugene B. Fluc...  ...at the Japanese Empire came toward the end of the war when the crew of this submarine attacked a train...  ...5. Commander Fluckey stay...

(Photo: Max Smith)Other than a handful of submarin...  ...tly attack the 48 contiguous United States during World War II . The Japanese did, however, have larger ambitions...  ...the Japanese developed this plan too late in the war to make it feasible. They cancelled it and simila...