Few people know the harm nuclear testing can do better than inhabitants of the Marshall Islands which was a US-administered trust territory of the United Nations from 1947 to 1986.
Ernest “Smokey” Smith crawls through the rain-drenched night, his uniform caked with mud. It is October 21, 1944, and the bad ...
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The Last Death of World War 2

World War II officially ended in 1945, but even in its final hours, lives were still being lost. This video tells the story ...
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The road to the Hawker Tempest was a long and appropriately tempestuous one, but the result was probably the best British ...
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FROM being ravaged by bloody World War I to being carved up by Hitler and Stalin during World War II, Poland endured the ...
As historian Lloyd E. Eastman wrote, China resisted a better-trained and better-equipped army for eight full years. France ...
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This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?