The unfolding war in the Middle East has ricocheted across the region. Nearly every country has sustained damage from missile hits or shrapnel.
World War II was decided by more than strategy and manpower. The weapons each side brought to the battlefield often ...
The CFP franc (XPF) is the official currency for French territories in the Pacific, including New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis, and Futuna, introduced in 1945, ...
The USS Massachusetts is largely believed to be the ship that fired the last shot of World War II. Here's what happened to ...
The Gloster Meteor, Britain’s first operational jet fighter, was developed under strict secrecy during the Second World War.
On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American ...
In 1942, during the darkest days of World War II, Lieutenant Colonel Wendell Fertig refused to surrender after the fall of ...
In June 1943, a Kentucky congressman walked up to a microphone and gave Japan one of its greatest intelligence victories of WWII.
Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of the most extraordinary individual actions of the Pacific War, earning Gray ...