With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
In July of 1940, Hitler's goal was to intimidate Britain. Britain's goal was to resist Hitler and to eliminate Germany's bombers which were flying ov...
Not only was Gordon Welchman a very intelligent mathematician, he was a practical organizer who played a leading role in the setup of Bletchley Park's...
During the Nazi occupation of Norway, German officials sent political prisoners and deportees to the Grini Prison and Concentration Camp (located near...
U.S. Marines fight desperately to keep the airfield at Guadalcanal.
Exactly eight months to the day, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 11,000 American Marines land on a Pacific island called Guadalcanal. They are about...
The Battle of Guadalcanal proves turning point for the War in the Pacific
This film depicts Colonel Hans Landa as a Jew Hunter. Although the film is not entirely historically based, during WWII there was a real SS "Jew Hunte...
As the flames moved up, from the circus tent's untreated sidewall, they found the big top's roof with its treated layer of paraffin and gasoline. A d...
This image, from the German Federal Archives, depicts Heinrich Himmler at the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1936.
Landing in New Jersey, following a thunderstorm, one of Germany's airships - theHindenburg- explodes on May 6, 1937. It disintegrates in less than a m...
On the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, people still wonder whether Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, was responsible for Japan's role in WWII. To his people, Hi...
Winston Churchill refers to the endless U-boat attacks, during the Battle of the Atlantic, as the "U-Boat Peril." His choice of words underscores the ...
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