An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

An administrative error could be the reason Second World War hero Paddy Mayne controversially missed out on the Victoria ...

Tupperware targeted women who were interested in working, Tupperware, Inc. During the Second World War, women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the ...

(Library of Congress) Upon America’s entry into the Second World War ... according to the National World War II Museum. Carnage on Oct. 8 over the German U-boat yards at Bremen and aircraft ...

During the Second World War, however ... becoming one of the first recognized heroes of World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen broke through another of the military's barriers. During World War ...

Child Evacuees during World War II - Woman's Hour Operation Pied-Piper ... of France in May 1940 when the British realised that the Second World War wouldn't be fought solely in Europe.

The Second World War was the first modern conflict in which millions more civilians died than soldiers. As economic production became essential to military success, civilians were conscripted into ...

The death of John Hemingway, the last of The Few who fought in the Battle of Britain, has brought a reminder of the southern Irish who fought in the second World War, but especially those from the ...

At right is Michael Ralston, son of Gilbert Ralston, a 2/14th Battalion soldier ... last major Australian ground operation of the Second World War and the largest ever amphibious assault involving ...

A survey of the Second World War which is both thematic and chronological. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is a 2, ...