[https://youtu.be/MrFW5FwwkfI] (YouTube link)The m...  ...had more on his resume than his stage act. During World War II , Marceau harnessed his acting talent to aid the F...  ...Great Big Story lets us in on a bit of Marceau's wartime activities. -via Laughing Squid

In the 1930s, as life for Jewish people in Germany...  ...ept me connected to our roots.”However, the war they had fled caught up with them. Japan consolid...

An American soldier found a tiny but full-grown Yo...  ...rkshire terrier in a foxhole in New Guinea during World War II . Combat photographer Corporal William A. Wynne to...  ...s named Smoky, and over the last two years of the war she accompanied Wynne on 12 combat missions and d...  ...downtime. Those tricks...

The 442nd Infantry Regiment was formed in 1943, an...  ...ame the most decorated unit in US history. During World War II , about 14,000 men served in the regiment and earn...  ...oops and other young Nisei men wanted to help the war effort, and started from the bottom to work their...

During World War II , more than 40,000 nurses served in the US militar...  ...y about 500 of them over the entire course of the war were black nurses, and they had to fight to be ad...  ...S Army Nurse Corps. Powell's father had served in World War...

Let me tell you a story about how a typo helped...  ...t me tell you a story about how a typo helped end World War Two... (thread) pic.twitter.com/HxismWwlzE—...  ...ad more about Tandy and his adventures during the war . -via Mental Floss

Female combat pilots were virtually unheard of bef...  ...le combat pilots were virtually unheard of before World War II , and while the Women Airforce Service Pilots were...  ...o, they became a crucial Soviet asset in winning World War II .The Germans nicknamed them the Nachthexen, or &ld...  ...a sweeping b...

During World War II , consumer goods were restricted so that materials...  ...controlled Southeast Asia, where the bulk of the world ’s rubber was produced.) Hoping to avoid ser...

Winston Churchill is one of those historical figur...  ...c time period, and Winston's time will forever be World War II .But prior to the World Wars Churchill was already on the road to becoming a l...  ...a London newspaper. He subsequently served as a *strong class="matc...

The Olympic Games were canceled in 1940 and 1944 d...  ...ympic Games were canceled in 1940 and 1944 due to World War II , but athletic competitions went on just the same...  ...e -in POW camps. The German POW camp called Oflag II -C camp staged what they called the Woldenberg Oly...