Eighty years ago Thursday, the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to ...
The popular picture of World War II usually centers around beaches, battles, and bombs. Normandy. Pearl Harbor. The ...
World War II Timeline -- pt. I. Americans Abroad -- 1. Fairness, Savagery, Delight, Trauma, and Vice -- 2. Combat Remembered -- 3. Why We Fight -- pt. II. Americans at Home -- 4. Gearing Up for War -- ...
The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...