In October 1943 the second world war was in full swing and the tide was turning against the Axis powers, though there was no ...

America’s legendary 100th Bombardment Group (Heavy) earned its nickname “Bloody Hundredth” for the losses it sustained during strategic bombing missions over Europe in 1943. On its first mission on ...

In the final days of 1943, a damaged American B-17 struggled to stay in the air — its crew wounded, its engines failing. Then, out of the clouds, a German fighter appeared. What happened next became ...

In this provocative documentary series blackandwhite images culled from private archives and German newsreel footage replay the events of World War II as seen through the eyes of the German citizenry ...

Installation view Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55 at the Harvard Art Museums (all installation images courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums) Installation view Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55 at the ...

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Roger Marsh of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Mrs. J. Broomhead and has been added to the site with the author’s permission. The ...

Operation Long Jump, or Operation Rösselsprung in German, was a plan by the Germany during World War II that could have changed the course of history. Upon learning that British PM Winston Churchill, ...

The strategic importance of the back-and-forth fighting between Allied and Axis troops in North Africa from 1941 to 1943 has long been debated. In some respects, it was a sideshow to World War II, the ...

German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet that ...