13 Things You Might Not Know About the Berlin Wall
6. The "Death Strip" was as scary as it sounds.
Residents of an East London neighborhood got quite a surprise earlier today when police knocked on the door to say a decades-old bomb had been discovered in the area.
The worst shark attack in history followed the bombing and sinking of the USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945.
How German POWs populated small-town America during World War II.
These are the kinds of things the American military wanted its soldiers to be cognizant of as they worked their way into Nazi-occupied France.
Hoping to protect Leonardo's work against attack, officials had guarded it with sandbags and scaffolding years before. And it worked.
During WWII, the U.S. government was scared that Japan might take all of Hawaii's money. Here's what they did to stop it.
"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
While some World War II soldiers were storming the beaches of Normandy, others were busy drafting posters to school soldiers on the dangers of venereal diseases.
Reader Scott from Vermont wrote to ask, “Why did the Nazis adopt the ancient sacred symbol of the swastika as their emblem?”