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Explore the most notorious weapons of WWII and discover how they worked, from buzzsaw machine guns and game-changing bombs to ...
“They started a week ago over in Texas, and they are on their way to the 80th anniversary of the V-E Day Victory in Europe, which will be celebrated on May 8th, and that represents when the Germans ...
A 101-year-old Hasidic family matriarch who fled Russia after World War II – and was “extremely independent till her last day” – was fatally struck by an unlicensed driver in Brooklyn ...
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It was the "spirit of the day" that drew Bill Purdy to the air force during World War II. The now-centenarian still remembers being called up as a Lancaster bomber pilot in 1942. "The war had been ...
Today marks 39 years since Wallis Simpson, the woman who became Duchess of Windsor after King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry her, died at the age of 89. She played a notorious role in ...
A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully armed with an 83-year-old bomb fixed to the wing, NOAA Ocean Exploration says. The Douglas SBD ...
AN ICONIC wooden car has been discovered in the wreckage of the famed US warship, downed by a Japanese submarine during WWII. Historians are baffled as to why the 1940-41 black Ford Super Deluxe ...
Your device does not support the audio. ALTON - As a World War II Prisoner of War, Alton native Robert Ryan traded his Marquette Catholic High School class ring for a can of sardines. Now ...
A pattern, they say, is emerging: Pope Pius X died in 1914, just as World War I began.Pope Pius XI died in 1939, on the eve of World War II. Now, as the world simmers with conflicts from Ukraine ...
During World War II, the Navy used the aircraft as dive bombers and scout planes. At the Battle of Midway, Douglas SBD Dauntless planes helped sink four Japanese aircraft carriers, according to ...
A US aircraft carrier from World War II, which sunk to the bottom of the Pacific over 80 years ago, is now at the center of an automotive mystery. An expedition to the famous shipwreck 1,000 ...