Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's ...

During the Second World War, there were multiple people from Allied countries who deserted to the Axis powers. Actually, ...

Ask a dozen military historians to name the single most pivotal battle or campaign of World War II—the one operation that saw the war’s momentum irrevocably swing from the Axis to the Allied powers — ...

Goldsworthy was reported missing in action Dec. 17, 1944, and was confirmed to have been killed. His remains were not ...

What Will Happen In 1944? Though nothing has been announced just yet, a pretty big war happens in the 1940s. (Obviously.) Spencer Dutton fought in the first World War before the events of 1923, ...

On Christmas Day in 1944, Clay McIver, 30, a Texas farm boy from a town near Abilene, found himself in the uniform of the Army Air Corps in England, as one of millions of Americans then serving ...

Associated Press Woman’s Editor Dorothy Roe included a poem in her 1944 article about the kitchen of the future. I found the article in the March 20, 1944 Charleston Gazette (Charleston, West Virginia ...

Douglas Baldwin and George McLeod both served in the King's Own Scottish Borderers more than 80 years ago.

December 3, 1944 saw one of the bloodiest and most polarizing incidents in the history of the Greek civil war, known as "Dekemvriana." ...