Here is a slightly revised version of a package of stories we first ran five years ago, commemorating the final land battle of the Pacific in World War II. The largest amphibious invasion of the ...

If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in the Pacific as recorded by the British, then this is the book for you. The account of each engagement is drawn ...

The day after the Battle of Iwo Jima started during World War II, on Feb. 20, 1945, the Associated Press reported in The Patriot that “the battle is fierce and is costing considerable lives.” In the ...

In September 1943, returning to Britain from the Quebec Conference aboard the battleship HMS Renown, Winston Churchill called for a box of matches to be brought to the admiral’s cabin after dinner.

80 years after their victory in Europe and the Pacific, heroes share stories of the friendships they made and the memories ...

11:30, Wed, Aug 20, 2025 Updated: 11:30, Wed, Aug 20, 2025 ON August 12, 1942, five days after the 19,000-strong 1st Marine Division had landed unopposed on Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands, ...

In this IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles compilation, we bring together the most gripping and skillful crash landings from World War II’s virtual skies. From bombers nursing crippled engines over enemy ...

This first part of the series introduces the first tanks being deployed on the battlefields in northern France during the First World War and describes the devastating effect these steel monsters had ...