The Battle of Kasserine Pass was America's first major fight against the European Axis in World War II. It turned into one of ...
On 8 May 1942, United States and Australian naval and air forces engaged with the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Battle of the ...
While the Islanders blanked the Rangers on Saturday night, the real highlight came before the game, when 104-year-old Dominick Critelli, a World War II veteran, performed the national anthem on his ...
As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left “a sonic gap” in the landscape. A bell inside the Dom Tower in Utrecht, the ...
Late in World War II, Nazi engineers proposed the Silbervogel, a suborbital rocket powered bomber designed to strike targets across the Atlantic. Using a boost sled and a skipping reentry trajectory, ...
Reginald Harrison didn’t have a nickname when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943. But after crashing his plane a second time trying to liftoff for a mission in 1944, fellow pilots started ...