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The Invasion of Poland. From the beginning, this was to be a different kind of war—a war not only of conquest but also of annihilation
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In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel.
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The attack was the deadliest event ever in Hawaii, and the deadliest foreign attack on the U.S. until the September 11 attacks of 2001.
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The Battle of Midway (June 3-6, 1942) was a naval battle where the US destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength, ending the threat of further Japanese
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II.
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Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II.
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The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section Unit (MFAA) was a program established by the Allies in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas
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The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle of WWII, occurred July 5-Aug 23, 1943. The Soviet victory led to the liberation of Ukraine and was a turning point
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.
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The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive or Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front
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a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima
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The 82-day battle on Okinawa lasted from 1 April 1945 until 22 June 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were planning to use Kadena Air
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) died on April 12, 1945 from a cerebral hemorrhage while at his "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia. The 63-year-old president collapsed while sitting for a portrait, shocking the nation less than three months into his fourth term.
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Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era, which lasted from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
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On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War II.
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The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, was the first use of nuclear weapons in warfare, when the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the uranium bomb "Little Boy," instantly killing tens of thousands and leading to over 100,000 deaths by year-end from blast, heat, and radiation, forcing Japan's eventual surrender after a second bomb in Nagasaki.