In this WW2 Wayfinder episode, we dig into the surprising scale and variety of animal power behind the war effort - and why dogs stood out as the most adaptable of them all. We trace how different ...

In January 1925, a diphtheria epidemic tore through Nome, Alaska. The closest medication was over 500 miles away — and the ...

Greenland’s cryolite mine, essential for U.S. airplane production, was below sea level and vulnerable to Nazi sabotage. Reginald Wilcox, ca. 1941. Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College On ...

William W. Putney, a Marine Corps officer who trained war dogs during World War II and wrote of their heroism in his book ” Always Faithful, ” has died. He was 83. Mr. Putney died Tuesday of cancer at ...