Meet The 18-Foot King Cobra That Was Killed In World War II
While men fell to bullets and bombs everywhere, the world’s longest venomous snake ever recorded was also caught in the ...
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Staffers Find a Japanese Hand Grenade From World War II at a Museum in Kentucky
After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...
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World War II History
Key point: A British officer developed a plan for a massive combined-arms offensive in 1919 that might have won World War I if it had dragged on that long. Blitzkrieg is... Here’s What You Need ...
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The Troubling Truth About the World War II-Era Rose Bowl That Became Part of American Sports Lore
However, in 1942, during World War II, the game was held in a very different ... all of the players on both teams were white. This history exposes how, despite claims that sports are the ultimate ...
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‘I wanted to do something more for the war effort than bake sausage rolls.’
Betty Webb, 97, points with her walking stick to a ground floor room in the baronial mansion at Bletchley Park, Britain’s legendary top secret code-breaking facility during World War II.
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This Week’s Episode of Reveal: A World War II Incident Nearly Lost to History
In the aftermath, American soldiers gunned down dozens of unarmed German prisoners of war in a field—a clear violation of the Geneva Convention. “I remember we had been given orders ...