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May 8, 1945. A requisitioned estate outside Munich. The war in Europe is over, but the air inside the stone walls of the surrender processing…

On June 12, 1942, a young girl received a diary for her 13th birthday. The gift was given during one of the most turbulent and…

It still sits there. Hangar B at the Smithsonian’s Udvarhazi Center, Chantelli, Virginia. A Messormid ME262 Ver Numa50491. Tactical marking yellow 7. The fastest combat…

March 1945, Ewima. The battle had lasted 36 days. 6,800 Americans were dead. More Marines died on that island than in any other engagement in…

In the late autumn of 1943, somewhere in the United States, American engineers got their hands on a small German staff car that had been…

Summer of 1944, Northern France, a German workshop somewhere behind the lines. A young Utra Fisher, a non-commissioned mechanic, is standing in front of an…

U35 was given no special treatment by a British captives. With the war over, it was mothalled and finally broken up for scrap in 1920….

\\\\\ Submarines are strange in that unlike other naval vessels, they’re actually designed to sink and then rise again. It just so happens that occasionally…

It was late summer, 1,945. The Pacific War was all but over and the world waited for surrender. But in the southernmost edge of Japan’s…