World War II Casualties and Legacy Photo Galleries World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, involved more than 50 nations and was fought on land, sea and air in nearly every part of the world. Also known as the Second World War, it was caused in part by the ...
Sarens recently transported the foundation pillars for the Bollinger Canopy of Peace at the World War II Museum in New Orleans. These seven pillars will support the entire canopy structure, which stands 150 feet tall and is designed to unify the museum campus. The pillars were trucked in by ...
In Europe, tensions with Hitler’s Germany escalated and led to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Unlike many young men, Marcel did not immediately feel the need to join the fight, likely because he was satisfied with his job as a cook at Bowles Lunch. He waited until January 11,...
To quote the Imperial War Museum,“During the whole war, 51% of aircrew were killed on operations, 12% were killed or wounded in non-operational accidents and 13% became prisoners of war or evaders. Only 24% survived the war unscathed.” An aircrew member was committed to fly thirty oper...
A German Maus II, reassembled in Moscow after World War II, is being examined. It is now on display at the Kubinka tank museum. While a favorite of video game designers, only two or three were built, there is no evidence they were ever used in combat, and the only workable one was ...
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jobs such as aviation mechanics, photographers, control tower operators, and intelligence personnel. In late 1944, the WAVES program began accepting African American women at the ratio of one black woman for every 36 white women enlisted in the WAVES program. By the end of the war, over 84,...
The museum has a large collection of Coca-Cola bottles left behind after the war. The US military discovered that Japanese submarines were using the trail of floating empty Coke bottles, thrown overboard by US sailors, to sink ships during the war. Their solution to the problem was to instruc...
STOW, Mass. (AP) — A World War I-era plane crashed and flipped over onto its roof as the pilot tried to land outside of a military history museum in Massachusetts, authorities said Sunday. The pilot was not hurt.
“Both Germany and Japan had been really getting ready for World War II for about a decade,” saysRob Wallace, the STEM education specialist at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. With the onset of the war, the British government developed planes based on Whittle’s designs. The first...