The legend of Jasper Maskelyne, a British stage magician who helped hide Allied military installations during World War II, has likely been embellished beyond his actual accomplishments.
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who led the World War 2 Dam Busters raid on Nazi Germany, is remembered with a blue plaque at his former home in ...
At a huge wartime dump, every shovel of “paydirt” through the sieves turns into a small history lesson. In a single sieve, the team uncovers three WHW badges at once—a soldier figure and two city coat ...
But with the 1940s came World War II and workers’ strikes, and Disney lost its foreign markets, most of its box office sales ...
Iconic baseball cards from the 1940s are defined by their historical significance. Each card helps tell the story of baseball ...
THE head of MI6 declared a shadow war with Russia and vowed to hit back against tyrant Putin’s rampant campaign of sabotage.
Blaise Metreweli, in her first public engagement as "C", said Russia is "testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are ...
From political thrillers to epic science fiction adventures, Captain America has had no shortage of incredible adventures ...
When Elyn MacInnis first moved to Nanjing in the late 1980s, she was greeted by a wholly unexpected connection. Local elderly ...
A new online history project shows how anxious Americans in the 1940s and ‘50s blamed comics for juvenile delinquency and ...
"Germany invading Britain is always the funniest one to me. They could have smashed the RAF into oblivion and still not been ...
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