During World War II, battles were won by the side that was first to spot enemy airplanes, ships, or submarines. To give the Allies an edge, British and American scientists developed radar ...

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 ...

By the time World War II ended in September 1945, Perry, his crew and the Mississippi were long gone, the frigate having sunk during a naval battle of the American Civil War. But even in those ...

The deadliest conflict in world history remains in living memory with many events of World War II being adapted into movies of the succeeding decades. There are hundreds of motion pictures set ...

But we were polite, spoke the truth, and discussed what the world should be like.’ ‘They discriminated against us, cursed at us, just because we were refugees … I was nine—the war wasn ...

returned home last month after nearly eight decades Ellen Wexler In the final weeks of World War II, a Japanese torpedo sank an American heavy cruiser. Only 316 of the 900 sailors who survived the ...

Czech explosive experts detonated a World War II bomb on Friday at a major chemical plant in northwestern Czech Republic where it was found last week, authorities said. Besides a few broken ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- An incredible piece of American history that played a major role in the Allied powers' victory in World War II sailed into Pittsburgh on Wednesday. The USS LST-325 is docked ...

The Peace of Paris – The treaties worked out in Paris at the end of World War I satisfied few. Germany, Austria and the other countries on the losing side of the war were especially unhappy with ...

Communist resistance leader Henri Rol-Tanguy sent an emissary, Roger Gallois, west through the war’s front lines to ask the ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

Saul David uses the BBC archive to examine the most important stories related to World War II, and how our understanding of them has been redefined since the war ended. Show more Professor Saul ...