BRITISH prime minister Winston Churchill commissioned the development of “Operation Unthinkable” as early as May 1945. The British General Staff was instructed to devise a plan for an attack on the ...

After a summer month with a gleaming motorcycle, we return with tales of cross-country charity, a tank for cognac, and a dawn ...

A soldier who risked his life to protect hundreds of Jewish-American prisoners of war during World War II will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor more than 40 years after his death. Master Sgt.

On May 5, 1945, just days after Hitler’s death, Castle Itter in Austria became the site of one of the strangest battles of World War II. We explore how U.S. soldiers, Austrian resistance fighters, and ...

Roddie Edmonds help save the lives of about 300 Jewish-Americans while being held as a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II.

U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and other warships at the Naval Repair Base in San Diego during World War II, illustrating the city’s key role in the wartime home front. (Public domain, U.S. National ...

Eighty years ago, on 20 November, 1945, the historic trials of many leaders of the Nazi Third Reich began in Nuremberg, Germany, just months after the end of WWII. The exceptional procedure laid the ...

Germany's Bundeswehr was founded on November 12, 1955. The decision was highly controversial, just 10 years after the end of World War II. Today, the Bundeswehr is expected to assume a leadership role ...

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In the aftermath of World War II, amidst the rubble and uncertainty, Operation Unthinkable emerged as a chilling proposal. Join us on a journey through history as we explore the unthinkable: the ...

In late July 2025, rumors circulated on social media about a Mitchell B-25 bomber from the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) that supposedly crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945. For ...

When his mom was clearing weeds from her garden in Constance, southern Germany, Conrad, 29, didn't expect her to stumble on a piece of history. "She was digging out some weeds when she found this ...