If ever there was a film that would belong in a "top ten war movies of all time" list, this

Henry A. Wallace was born on 7th October, 1888 in Adair County, Iowa. After finishing his studies at Iowa State

I almost hate to say this, but The Great Escape is actuallly a *fun* movie.  It's loosely based on a series of real

Although popular opinion holds that the United States economy significantly benefitted from World War 2, there were a number of

Wake Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean, it was annexed by the US in 1899. The island

Before the Second World War most people in the United States or anywhere else in the world for that matter

You'd think that a film about developing a one-off weapon that defies all logic would be incredibly un-interesting, right?  Wrong!! The

The U.S. M4 Sherman Tank, formally known as the Medium Tank M4 was the main tank used by the U.S.

In the final months of the Second World War, while the forces of the Allies battled the last of the

The Axis Powers were the countries that fought against the Allies in World War II. The alliance had its start

The Japanese military went into the Second World War armed with a family of Mauser based bolt action rifles, collectively

The US 7th Infantry Division had seen minor action in France at the close of WWI. When the Second World

James Forrestal was born on February 15, 1892 in Matteawan, New York. In his early life he attended local schools

Lt. Gilbert Steingart served as dentist aboard the USS Ocelot in the Pacific Theater.  He promised to write daily letters

The first, World War 2 atomic bomb ever detonated was part of the tests to verify the functionality of the

At the start of World War II no one in the Nazi government believed that they would lose the war

The 1940 US Census was the sixteenth census taken by the United States Census Bureau and was taken during the

The Monuments Men (in case you were living in a cave for the last several months) is a fictionalized re-telling of

World War 2 was the deadliest conflict to occur in human history resulting in between 50 to 70 million fatalities

On September 1, 1939, the German military forces invaded Poland to begin World War II. This invasion was very successful

Pointe du Hoc is a cliff top on the coast of Normandy in France. It is located on the west

Operation Battleaxe was a British operation during WWII against the German and Italian forces in Cyrenaica, Libya. The objective of

The following are several Russian war posters.

The battle of Leningrad was the bloodiest and one of the longest sieges in the history of warfare. It is