World War II was marked by its epic battles, which decided the fate of nations and changed the course of history. From Germany's Blitzkrieg attacks on Poland that launched the European campaign to the ...
Smiling pilots crouching atop their planes. Squadrons of bombers soaring above the clouds. Crews taking a break during a training day. These images, recently restored for a book curated by London’s ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On February 4, 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Livadia Palace, in the Crimean resort of Yalta, with a single item on the agenda: to ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The sheer improbability of the Dunkirk evacuation is laid bare by the expectations of the British Admiralty: secretly, they feared they would only ...
In May 1940, a German offensive traps the British on the French coast, but a heroic civilian effort evacuates the troops and inspires an entire nation. U-boat "wolf packs" ravage Allied convoys early ...
The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. June 23, 1943, U.S. Army reinforcements land on a beach on Attu Island, part of the ...
BASTOGNE, Belgium — Some of the last living American veterans of World War II on Saturday met with world leaders and many other admirers as they recounted how the Allies braved subfreezing ...
More images from an iconic U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean during World War II have been released, just days after a crew said they found a military vehicle inside the ...
TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. *No charge for 4 weeks then price increases to the regular ...
A bereaved family prays for war victims on Monday at Japan's Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa-Prefecture. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI June 23 (UPI) --More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an ...
Never before seen archive footage of WW2 which has been colourised for the first time. The footage tells the story of the greatest conflict the world has ever known in full colour.
Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said on Monday it is the ...