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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...