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May 1941, the North Atlantic, a 50,300 ton battleship, the most powerful warship in European waters, had just destroyed HMS Hood in under 3 minutes….

For years, Japanese women had been told only one thing about the enemy. That American soldiers were merciless. That surrender meant humiliation. That capture meant…

In August of 2016, 31-year-old Daniel Brener and his wife, 32-year-old Clare Brener, set out on a 4-day backpacking trip into the remote back country…

August 1944, northern France, a unit of Vermach Mechanics, Masters of German Engineering, examined their latest prize, a captured American GMCC CKW truck. To their…

May 5th, 1945. Austria. The war in Europe has less than three days left. Hitler is dead. The German army is surrendering in waves. But…

May 12th, 1945. Lancasher, England. 0830 hours. The lorries came to a stop outside a brick compound that had once stored wool. Now it stored…

In the frozen, oxygen starved void 30,000 ft above Tokyo, the rules of war usually come down to physics. But on January 27th, 1945, the…

At first glance, the strange twin-tailed fighter looked like an oversized reconnaissance plane. Slow, awkward, and hardly a threat. Japanese pilots smirked as they closed…

Late 1943, the Elswick works of Vicers Armstrong’s Newcastle upon Tine, Northern England. A tracked vehicle rolls off the factory floor and onto a rain…