Remembering Jasenovac Concentration Camp
While not as instantly recognizable as Dachau or Buchenwald, Jasenovac concentration camp has nevert ...View More
Friend of the Devil
Shaved-pated eccentric with eyes like Rasputin’s formed a devil-worshiping church and made a bundle ...View More
Valérie André, the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat
Valérie André is a medevac helicopter pioneer—and the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat. For ...View More
Suffragette Cinema
In November 1914, American voters in seven states were to consider a proposed Constitutional amendme ...View More
Yank, the Army Weekly Magazine Proves that Military Humor Transcends Generations
The curated images from Yank, the Army Weekly, first issued June 17, 1942 until its last publication ...View More
Negative Consequences Aboard the USS Missouri
Curators at The National World War II Museum solve readers’ artifact mysteries. While goin ...View More
A U.S. Marine on the Nile
After a month’s march through sand amid the ruins and palm trees lining the Nubian Nile an invading ...View More
Sailor Tattoos Through the Ages
“The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation….” Captain James Cook recorded i ...View More
Devyatayev’s Flight: A Russian POW stole a German bomber and lived to tell the tale
This week in 1945, Soviet fighter pilot Lt. Mikhail Petrovich Devyatayev made one of military histor ...View More
The Somers Mutiny: Justice From the Yardarms
Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (Denisko/IStockPhoto) When astronauts experience technical difficulties ...View More
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