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.
During late May and early June, of 1940, French, British and Canadian troops were trapped between the English Channel - near Dunkirk - and advancing G...
By the 4th of June, 1940, Operation Dynamo saved about 350,000 trapped French and British troops. The "Miracle of Dunkirk," however, was an evacuation...
This Universal Newsreel (really more like a documentary) provides primary-source information on the build-up to D-Day and take us to the initial Norma...
As World War II was reaching an end, officials in the U.
"Operation Shingle" was an Allied mission to land troops at the Anzio Beachhead, in Italy, during January of 1944.
On witnessing the first test of the atomic bomb, which he had helped to develop during his work with the Manhattan Project, Dr.
Fifty years after Hitler's death and Germany's surrender, the BBC rebroadcast the original news as it was delivered on May 2, 1945.
Because the clouds have cleared on Sunday morning - December 7, 1941 - every pilot has an unobstructed view as hundreds of Japanese airplanes approach...
Sixty years after D-day, and the Allied landings at Normandy, two British pilots who transported troops on a wooden glider recall how their efforts le...
While America occupied Japan, after the end of World War II, The Philippines became an independent country.
Just before the bombs began to fall in Warsaw, marking the beginning of Poland's long years of World War II turmoil, this part of Rachmaninoff's 2nd p...
In this clip from "On Freedom's Wings: Bound for Glory," Luther H.
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