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Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 268th installment in the series.

National Park Service via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

The Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp will eventually open as a national monument.

People from all walks of life—dentists, psychologists, journalists, and more—came together to come up with some crazy, unorthodox, and sometimes wildly successful weapons to win the war.

Whether through the skies or on the ground, these weapons helped the Allies win World War II.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 267th installment in the series.

Theodore Roosevelt on Safari, Library of Congress // Public Domain

Got a couple million dollars lying around?

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 265th installment in the series.

Atlatls // Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

From Greek fire to the AK-47.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 265th installment in the series.

By the time John Clem was discharged near the end of the war, he had not only seen active combat but had become a national folk hero as well.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 264th installment in the series.

Had the police known there was barbed wire hidden in the floral arrangements, things might have gone a little differently.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 263rd installment in the series.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 262nd installment in the series.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 261st installment in the series.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 260th installment in the series.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 259th installment in the series.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 258th installment in the series.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 257th installment in the series.

Now she's on a mission to track down its owner.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 255th installment in the series.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 254th installment in the series.

He came back 20 years later to try and make amends.

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 253rd installment in the series.

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