Dowding, the radar chain, the dispersal huts at Fowlmere, the first night of the London Blitz and the Polish pilots of 303 Squadron: the summer and autumn of 1940 in photographs, in chronological order.
Battle Of Britain Photos Taken In 1940. For Some Of These Pilots, They Were The Last. Read More »
From a German commanders’ conference in August 1942 to a fountain left standing in a wrecked square: the battle for Stalingrad in photographs, taken by both sides, in chronological order.
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On September 2, 1944, anti-aircraft fire set George H.W. Bush’s plane alight over Chichijima, and a submarine pulled him from the sea. Eight other American airmen captured near the island were never seen alive again.
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From the smoke over Battleship Row to the surrender deck of the USS Missouri: fifty photographs of the Pacific war, in chronological order, taken by Navy photographer’s mates, Marine combat correspondents, Signal Corps crews and a few Japanese naval aviators.
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In August 1943, 34,000 American and Canadian troops stormed the Aleutian island of Kiska to dislodge a Japanese garrison that had already slipped away. They took hundreds of casualties anyway — most of them inflicted by each other in the fog.
Siege warfare has been an effective strategy for military success for thousands of years, and the introduction of modern weaponry did not change such tactics; it only refined them. However, while political and military leadership address concepts such as blockades and sieges on paper, it is the citizens who live through the reality of those
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Though the USA entered World War II later than its Allies, its military faced some of the fiercest battles in the entire war. Among the hundreds of brave young men who signed up were the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa. Tragically, none of the five made it back alive, but their story serves as
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World War II was the biggest military conflict of the 20th century. This multi-year engagement, which lasted from 1939 to 1945, saw warfare being waged to devastating effect on a hitherto unprecedented scale. WWII’s result would shape the future of world politics, and its outcome was decided by the decisions and actions of a group
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Dresden was not the first, or the last city to burn during World War II, but it would be one of the most controversial. By early 1945, there were whispers on the wind that World War II would soon be finished. German forces were exhausted but still defiant, and the Red Army was gaining major
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The Red Scare of 1919-1920 is one of the most interesting periods of modern American history. It came about in the aftermath of World War One. The Red Scare, which later became the First Red Scare after similar worries about communists broke out following World War Two, was characterized by extreme government overreach into American
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