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    World War 2

    • US Navy Exonerates Black Sailors Court-Martialed in 1944 Port Chicago Disaster

      July 18, 2024

    • German U-boats Managed to Sink 397 Allied Vessels in Torpedo Junction in Just Six Months

      July 18, 2024

    • Mickey Rooney Received the Bronze Star for Entertaining Troops on the Frontlines

      July 17, 2024

    • There Are Three U-boats Entombed Beneath a Parking Lot in Germany’s Second-Largest City

      July 17, 2024

    • New Trailer for Kate Winslet Film ‘Lee’ Shows Risks Wartime Photographers Took to Document History

      July 16, 2024

    • She Was Adopted in the Chaos of the Post-War Era – Over Seven Decades Later, She Discovered a Brother She Didn’t Know Existed

      July 16, 2024

    • USS Sachem (SP-192): ‘The Ghost Ship’ That Served in Both World Wars and Now Sits Abandoned in the Wilderness

      July 09, 2024

    • ‘They Were Expendable’ Actor Robert Montgomery Actually Served in the US Navy During World War II

      July 08, 2024

    • Operation Meetinghouse: The Devastating Firebombing of Tokyo During World War II

      July 08, 2024

    • Volunteers Requesting Help to Save World War II-Era Liberty Ship SS John W. Brown

      July 05, 2024

    • The March on Rome and Benito Mussolini’s Quest to Turn Italy Into a Fascist Nation

      July 04, 2024

    • John Ford Called Out John Wayne on Set for Not Serving in World War II

      June 27, 2024

    • 34 Miles of Tunnels Were Dug By the British Military Beneath the Rock of Gibraltar

      June 25, 2024

    • Tököl Airbase Played a Major Role in Germany’s War Machine – That Is, Until the Soviets Took It Over

      June 19, 2024

    • ‘The Commandant’s Shadow’ Documentary Tells Story of Auschwitz Director’s Son

      June 18, 2024

    • Calvin Graham: The 12-Year-Old Sailor Who Received the Bronze Star During the Guadalcanal Campaign

      June 17, 2024

    • Two Dead Following Crash Involving World War II-Era Aircraft in California

      June 17, 2024

    • Facts About ‘Das Boot’ – The Most Realistic Submarine Movie Ever Released

      June 17, 2024

    • USS West Virginia (BB-48): The Battleship That Survived Pearl Harbor and Exacted Revenge on America’s Enemies

      June 13, 2024

    • The Capture of U-505 Helped America Crack the Kriegsmarine’s Ultra-Secretive Code

      June 12, 2024

    • PHOTOS: The World War II-Era German Military Base That Was Occupied By the Soviets

      June 07, 2024

    • When Can We Expect Season Two of ‘SAS: Rogue Heroes’ – What We Know

      June 06, 2024

    • ‘D-Day 80th Anniversary’ Documentary Dives Into Turning Point of World War II

      June 04, 2024

    • African-American Medic Who Saved Dozens of Lives on D-Day Posthumously Awarded Distinguished Service Cross

      June 04, 2024

    • Bradford Freeman: The Easy Company Mortarman Who Fought His Way Through Occupied Europe

      June 03, 2024

    • Facts About D-Day – The Amphibious Landings That Changed the Course of World War II

      June 03, 2024

    • D-Day Movies Every Military History Buff Needs to Watch

      May 30, 2024

    • Photos of Battery 223 – An Abandoned World War II Military Fortification in New Jersey

      May 28, 2024

    • A Bankrupt Oskar Schindler Abandoned His Wife After World War II

      May 27, 2024

    • Royal Air Force Pilot Loses Life After Supermarine Spitfire Crashes Near RAF Coningsby

      May 27, 2024

    • EXCERPT: ‘Witty Manny’ – How a Man Drilled in Tyranny Became a Thriving Citizen of American Democracy

      May 26, 2024

    • Frontline Heroines Who Refused to Take a Step Back During World War II

      May 23, 2024

    • Official Trailer Released for Kelsey Grammer WWII-Era Movie, ‘Murder Company’

      May 15, 2024

    • Organizers Looking Forward to 80th Anniversary of Guernsey’s Liberation Next Year

      May 14, 2024

    • The Battle of the Atlantic Was a Never-Ending Fight for Control of the High Seas

      May 09, 2024

    • Pacific Wrecks Team Locates What They Believe to Be Richard Bong’s Missing P-38 ‘Marge’

      May 06, 2024

    • Hedy Lamarr Helped Develop the Technology Behind Wi-Fi – All the Way Back in World War II

      May 03, 2024

    • Five Skeletons Discovered Buried Beneath the Wolf’s Lair in Poland

      May 01, 2024

    • Neville Brand Received the Silver Star for Single-Handedly Taking on Enemy Troops Armed With Machine Guns

      April 30, 2024

    • Ceremony Held in Dorset to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of Exercise Tiger

      April 26, 2024

    • Jimmy Buffett Anonymously Donated Two WWII-Era Aircraft to a Museum Before His Death

      April 23, 2024

    • Operation Market Garden Led to a Decades-Long Treasure Hunt That’s Still Ongoing

      April 22, 2024

    • The Japanese Bolt-Action Arisaka Type 99 Rifle Saw Extensive Use In the Pacific Theater

      April 19, 2024

    • Germany Hoped to Weaponize the Occult to Win the Second World War

      April 18, 2024

    • The Battle of France Saw a European Power Fall in Just Six Weeks

      April 18, 2024

    • Shiro Ishii and the Dark Legacy of Japan’s Unit 731

      April 17, 2024

    • The Dear John Letter Was a Symbol of Heartbreak Amid the Terrors of War

      April 16, 2024

    • Ending the Deadliest Conflict in Human History: Why Did Japan Surrender in World War II?

      April 15, 2024

    • Upcoming ‘Armour & Embarkation’ Event to Mark 80th Anniversary of D-Day Landings

      April 12, 2024

    • Mauthausen Was One of the Most Notorious Concentration Camps Operated By the German Regime

      April 08, 2024

    • Memorial Erected In Honor of American Troops Who Died In D-Day Rehearsal Exercise

      April 08, 2024

    • Battle of Tarawa Lessons: How the Battle of Tarawa Led to the Creation of US Navy SEALs

      April 03, 2024

    • Last Surviving Crew Member of the USS Arizona (BB-39) Dead At 102

      April 02, 2024

    • ‘Female Schindler’ Diana Budisavljević Saved 7,700 Children During World War II

      March 28, 2024

    • MoH Recipient John Basilone Ran Headfirst Into Enemy Fire to Defeat the Japanese on Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima

      March 22, 2024

    • 15-Year-Old Whose Heroics Helped Shorten World War II Honored By Hometown

      March 15, 2024

    • Tom Hanks to Host World War II Docuseries for History Channel

      March 12, 2024

    • The B-17 Flying Fortress Saw Use As An Airliner?! 12 Facts About the Iconic American Heavy Bomber

      March 08, 2024

    • America’s Newest National Park is a WWII-Era Japanese-American Incarceration Camp in Colorado

      March 07, 2024

    • Wreckage of WWII-Era Douglas SBD Dauntless Discovered In Pacific 80 Years After It Went Missing

      March 05, 2024

    • Apple TV+ Releasing ‘The Bloody Hundredth’ Documentary, Narrated By Tom Hanks

      March 01, 2024

    • Unexploded World War II-Era Bomb Found In British Woman’s Garden

      February 26, 2024

    • Battle of Moscow: A Critical Turning Point In the Fight Along the Eastern Front

      February 22, 2024

    • The Tragic Last Stand of the HMS Hood Against Germany’s Prized Battleship Bismarck

      February 21, 2024

    • Upcoming WWII-Era Horror Film Loosely Based On Loss of Australian Corvette HMAS Armidale

      February 18, 2024

    • New Trailer Release for Kate Winslet’s Upcoming World War II Film ‘Lee’

      February 14, 2024

    • Paddy Mayne Executed Some of the Most Daring Raids Against Enemy Strongholds During World War II

      February 13, 2024

    • Was Herbert Sobel Really As Horrible As ‘Band of Brothers’ Made Him Out to Be?

      January 26, 2024

    • Was the Allied Bombing of Dresden a War Crime or Wartime Necessity?

      January 25, 2024

    • An Earache Saved Paul Newman From Certain Death During the Battle of Okinawa

      January 21, 2024

    • Battle of Iwo Jima: One of the Bloodiest Battles in US Marine Corps History

      January 16, 2024

    • 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion: The Only African-American Unit to Storm Normandy on D-Day

      January 10, 2024

    • WWII-Era Anti-Submarine Munitions, Smoke Devices Found Off Los Angeles Coast

      January 08, 2024

    • Johnnie Johnson: The Highest-Scoring Western Allied Air Ace of World War II

      January 02, 2024

    • The Irish Postmistress Whose Weather Forecast Changed the Course of D-Day

      December 29, 2023

    • ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Movie Details History Fans Will Appreciate

      December 26, 2023

    • ‘The World Will Tremble’ to Share True Story of Prisoner Escape From Chełmno

      December 18, 2023

    • The Real-Life Airmen Behind the Highly-Anticipated Miniseries ‘Masters of the Air’

      December 15, 2023

    • Bell P-63 Kingcobra: The American Fighter-Turned-Soviet Tank Buster

      December 14, 2023

    • World War II-Era Mystery Solved 80 Years After Aircraft, Pilot Went Missing Over Italy

      December 10, 2023

    • Russell Crowe, Rami Malek to Star in Post-War Historical Drama ‘Nuremberg’

      December 10, 2023

    • James R Ward: The USS Oklahoma Crewman Who Remained Behind at Pearl Harbor and Made the Ultimate Sacrifice

      December 09, 2023

    • On Christmas Eve 1944, American and German Soldiers Came Together for a Temporary Truce In the Hürtgen Forest

      December 09, 2023

    • Hikers Made An Incredibly Rare Discovery In a Northern British Field – A Canadian Ram Tank!

      December 01, 2023

    • Francis P Hammerberg Was Awarded the Medal Of Honor After Performing An 18-Hour Rescue Mission At Pearl Harbor

      November 28, 2023

    • Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?

      November 27, 2023

    • The ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Detail Most Viewers Missed – It Changes Our View of the Film

      November 16, 2023

    • Japan Turned to Kamikaze Frogmen to Defend Against a Potential Allied Invasion

      November 15, 2023

    • Flying ‘the Hump’ Required Allied Pilots to Fly Over the Himalayas in Terrible Conditions

      November 10, 2023

    • The Tank Museum Receives Donation of Letters Written By British Soldier During World War II

      November 09, 2023

    • Upcoming ‘Battle Over Britain’ Film Chronicles World War II’s First Major Aerial Campaign

      November 03, 2023

    • Facts About ‘The Great Escape’ – Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough Didn’t Get Along!

      November 01, 2023

    • Adolf Galland: The Luftwaffe Air Ace Who Survived Being Shot Down Four Times

      October 31, 2023

    • Mel Brooks: The Famed Jewish Comedian Who Fought the Germans In Europe

      October 30, 2023

    • Why Didn’t Germany Invade Switzerland?

      October 26, 2023

    • From Wartime Necessity to Chocoholic Revolution: Hershey’s World War II-Era Tropical Bar

      October 25, 2023

    • HMS Medusa (A353): The Ship That Marked the Way to Omaha Beach in June 1944

      October 25, 2023

    • A24 Releases Trailer for Award-Winning Holocaust Film, ‘The Zone of Interest’

      October 18, 2023

    • Lee Marvin: The Hollywood ‘Tough Guy’ Who Earned His Stripes In the Pacific Theater

      October 16, 2023

    • ‘U-571’ Is So Inaccurate That It Sparked An Official Debate In British Parliament

      October 13, 2023

    • Northrop XP-79: The Flying Wing Designed to Ram Into Enemy Aircraft in Mid-Air

      October 11, 2023

    • Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum Embarking on Project to Reconstruct WWII-Era Fairey Barracuda

      October 05, 2023

    • The Real-Life US Marines Behind the Characters of ‘The Pacific’

      October 04, 2023

    • With the Type 93 Torpedo, the Allies Didn’t Know What Hit Them… Literally

      September 29, 2023

    • Behind-the-Scenes Facts About the Popular WWII Film, ‘The Longest Day’

      September 26, 2023

    • Expedition Produces New Images of Shipwrecks from the Battle of Midway

      September 21, 2023

    • Hiroshima Survivor Kiyoshi Tanimoto and the Co-Pilot of the Enola Gay Met on an American TV Show

      September 05, 2023

    • The True Story Behind the Spaghetti Run in ‘Band of Brothers’

      September 05, 2023

    • The True Story Behind the USS Indianapolis Monologue in ‘Jaws’

      August 31, 2023

    • Three-Part Docuseries to Highlight Heroics of Women During World War II

      August 30, 2023

    • What Happened to the Members of Easy Company After World War II?

      August 30, 2023

    • North American B-25 Mitchell: The Most Produced American Medium Bomber of World War II

      August 29, 2023

    • The True Story Behind the Court-Martial Scene in ‘Band of Brothers’

      August 25, 2023

    • Official Teaser Released for Upcoming WWII-Era Miniseries, ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’

      August 25, 2023

    • Why Albert Einstein Wasn’t Involved In the Manhattan Project

      August 24, 2023

    • Why Can’t the Public Visit J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Grave?

      August 24, 2023

    • The True Story Behind the Netflix Film, ‘The Forgotten Battle’

      August 18, 2023

    • ‘1917’ Producer Bringing Story of Polish Hero Witold Pilecki to the Big Screen

      August 16, 2023

    • Roddie Edmonds: The NCO Who Risked His Life to Save Hundreds of Jewish-American POWs

      August 16, 2023

    • The Tank Museum Raffling Off Ride In Tiger 131

      August 14, 2023

    • Victory Markings Were Used By Pilots To Show Wins Against the Enemy

      August 11, 2023

    • Jamaicans Made Up Over Half of the Caribbean’s RAF Volunteers During WWII

      August 11, 2023

    • Temporary Graves Were Erected In WWII to Lay to Rest Those Who Died In Battle

      August 11, 2023

    • Royal Air Force Airmen Underwent Intense Training Before Taking to the Skies for Missions

      August 11, 2023

    • Could Hans Tragarsky Be The Unknown German Soldier In This Famous Image?

      August 11, 2023

    • 10 Weapons the Germans Used to Fight Against the Allied Advance on D-Day

      August 10, 2023

    • Nearly 500,000 Purple Hearts Were Made In Preparation for the Proposed American Invasion of Japan

      August 09, 2023

    • The WWII-Era Heroics of the Real-Life Monuments Men

      August 08, 2023

    • Judy Garland Did Her Part For The War Effort By Performing At War Bond Drives

      August 06, 2023

    • Witold Pilecki Risked His Life for the Polish Resistance By Voluntarily Being Imprisoned At Auschwitz

      August 06, 2023

    • Trailer for ‘The Great Escaper’ Shows Michael Caine as D-Day Veteran Jordan Bernard

      August 04, 2023

    • Behind-the-Scenes Facts About ‘Schindler’s List’

      August 04, 2023

    • Photos That Showcase the Morale-Boosting Drag Performances of WWII

      August 03, 2023

    • Nearly Seven Decades After He Last Held a Rifle, WWII Veteran Ted Gundy Hit a Target From 1,000 Yards Away

      August 03, 2023

    • Downed Nakajima B5N2 Torpedo Bomber Off the Coast of Papua New Guinea

      August 02, 2023

    • Did This U-boat Sink Herself With One of Her Own Torpedoes?

      August 01, 2023

    • Audie Murphy: The Most Decorated Soldier In US History

      August 01, 2023

    • US Marine Taking a Break During the Battle of Saipan

      July 27, 2023

    • Trailer Released for ‘One Life,’ Starring Anthony Hopkins as ‘British Oskar Schindler’

      July 27, 2023

    • ‘Piper Bill’ Millin Played British Commandos from Sword Beach to Pegasus Bridge

      July 26, 2023

    • Celebrations Erupted After Paris Was Liberated By the Allies Toward the End of World War II

      July 25, 2023

    • Mass Piles of Shoes Represent the Number of Jewish Dead at Auschwitz

      July 25, 2023

    • Soviet Citizens of All Ages Helped the Red Army Defend Against the Siege of Leningrad – Including Children

      July 24, 2023

    • The Extreme Measures the Germans Used to Effectively Execute Their Blitzkrieg Tactics

      July 21, 2023

    • Portable Surgical Hospitals Were Among the Most Important Medical Advancements of World War II

      July 20, 2023

    • From Barracks to Ballgowns: Drag Performances Helped Boost Morale in World War II

      July 20, 2023

    • Winston Churchill’s Daughter Commanded Anti-Aircraft Batteries During World War II

      July 19, 2023

    • Martin B-26 Marauder: The Accident-Prone Medium Bomber That Went On to Become One of the Most Successful of WWII

      July 19, 2023

    • Australian Soldiers Viewed the ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels’ As Their Saviors During World War II

      July 18, 2023

    • Fairey Swordfish: The Outdated Biplane That Helped Sink the German Battleship Bismarck

      July 18, 2023

    • The ‘Illegal’ World War II-Era Forest That Went Unnoticed for Over 50 Years

      July 18, 2023

    • USS Ticonderoga (CV-14): The Aircraft Carrier That Served In Two Wars and Aided In the Apollo Missions

      July 18, 2023

    • How Did the Manhattan Project’s Scientists React to the World’s First Atomic Bomb Test?

      July 17, 2023

    • Niš Incident: The Top-Secret Military Confrontation Between the US and the Soviet Union

      July 13, 2023

    • Emperor Hirohito’s Brother Criticized Japan’s War Crimes In the Second World War

      July 13, 2023

    • USS Buckley (DE-51): The Destroyer Escort That Took Out a German U-boat With Hand-to-Hand Combat and Grenades

      July 13, 2023

    • Casualties of Dunkirk – Mother Laying Flowers At Her Son’s Grave

      July 13, 2023

    • The Story Behind a Lockheed P-38G Lightning Wreck Off the Southern Coast of France

      July 12, 2023

    • World War II-Era Hawker Hurricanes Found Buried In Ukraine

      July 12, 2023

    • US Navy Identifies Escort Carrier Sunk By Japanese Kamikaze In World War II

      July 11, 2023

    • Before Starring Alongside Andy Griffith, Don Knotts Served In the US Army Special Services

      July 11, 2023

    • Japan’s Secret Weapon for the Invasion of British Malaya Was… Bicycles?

      July 09, 2023

    • Leslie ‘Bull’ Allen Single-Handedly Rescued 12 Wounded American Soldiers at Mount Tambu

      July 09, 2023

    • The World War II-Era British Covenanter Tank’s Issues Made It Immediately Obsolete

      July 08, 2023

    • Alan Turing’s Efforts to Decode German Enigma During World War II

      July 07, 2023

    • Forget CGI! A B-17 Was Actually Crashed During the Filming of ‘Twelve O’Clock High’

      July 07, 2023

    • Why the US Made the Japanese Surrender Aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63)

      July 06, 2023

    • The B-17 Tail Gunner Who Continued to Fight, Even After Being Shot Down

      July 05, 2023

    • British Soldiers Were Heralded As Heroes Following Dunkirk

      July 04, 2023

    • The Harley-Davidson WLA Was Affectionately Dubbed the ‘Liberator’ By American Troops

      July 04, 2023

    • Creating the Magnificent US Marine Corps War Memorial

      July 01, 2023

    • The Japanese Defeat During the Guadalcanal Campaign Was a Turning Point for the Allies

      July 01, 2023

    • SOE Operative Nancy Wake’s Only Regret Was Not Taking Out More Enemy Soldiers During World War II

      June 30, 2023

    • Desmond Doss Was the Only Conscientious Objector to Receive the Medal of Honor in World War II

      June 30, 2023

    • Mont-Saint-Michel Was ‘Liberated’ By One Soldier and Two Reporters In World War II

      June 29, 2023

    • USS California (BB-44): The Battleship That Survived Pearl Harbor and a Kamikaze Strike

      June 29, 2023

    • Before He Was Herman Munster, Fred Gwynne Served With the US Navy During World War II

      June 29, 2023

    • Windmill Girls Boosted the Spirits of Servicemen and the British Public During World War II

      June 28, 2023

    • The Sinking of U-559 and the Ultimate Sacrifice Made By Three Royal Navy Sailors

      June 28, 2023

    • Gerhard Barkhorn Was the Second-Highest-Scoring Fighter Pilot In All of History

      June 27, 2023

    • Four Nuns Were Rescued from Behind Enemy Lines By the USS Nautilus (SS-168)

      June 23, 2023

    • Luftwaffe Pilot Fritz Beeck Was Shot Down By the Battle of Britain’s First ‘Ace-in-a-Day’

      June 23, 2023

    • Soviet Sappers ‘Contributed Significantly’ to the USSR’s Defense During World War II

      June 22, 2023

    • George Patton Strikes a Pose for the 103rd Infantry Division

      June 22, 2023

    • Joyous American Servicemen Celebrating the Japanese Surrender in Paris

      June 22, 2023

    • E-boat: The Effective German Fast Attack Boat of the Second World War

      June 22, 2023

    • Higgins Boat: The Landing Craft That Helped the Allies Win World War II

      June 21, 2023

    • POW Camp 198 Was the Site of the ‘German Great Escape’

      June 20, 2023

    • 100-Year-Old D-Day Veteran Shares His Experiences On Popular TikTok Account

      June 19, 2023

    • Leichtgeschütz 40: Germany’s Powerful World War II-Era Recoilless Gun

      June 13, 2023

    • Emotional Drone Footage of Margraten American Cemetery

      June 13, 2023

    • Easy Company Assigned to Occupation Duty At the Eagle’s Nest

      June 13, 2023

    • USS Bennington (CV-20) Paying Respect At the USS Arizona Memorial

      June 13, 2023

    • The Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress ‘Memphis Belle’ Flew 25 Combat Missions Over Europe

      June 13, 2023

    • The Most Impactful Military Vehicles of World War II

      June 12, 2023

    • The Hughes H-4 Hercules Was An Absolute Mammoth Of An Aircraft

      June 09, 2023

    • The USS Utah (BB-31/AG-16) Was Sunk By the Japanese During the Attack on Pearl Harbor

      June 09, 2023

    • US Naval Aircraft Celebrate the Signing of the Japanese Surrender Aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63)

      June 09, 2023

    • HMS Sussex (96): The British Heavy Cruiser That Survived a Kamikaze Strike

      June 08, 2023

    • The Battle of Wake Island Lifted the Spirits of the American Public

      June 08, 2023

    • The WWII-Era Disappearance of a Grumman J2F Duck Over Greenland

      June 07, 2023

    • Panzerbüchse 39: The German ‘Tank Hunting Rifle’ That Saw Action In Poland and the USSR

      June 07, 2023

    • Exercise Tiger: The D-Day Live-Fire Rehearsal That Resulted In Over 700 Allied Deaths

      June 05, 2023

    • RAF Members Preparing to Bomb German Industry Targets During the Battle of the Ruhr

      June 04, 2023

    • Can You Spot the Finnish Coastal Defense Ship Väinämöinen In This Image?

      June 03, 2023

    • Sunken Remains of German U-boat U-166 In the Depths of the Gulf of Mexico

      June 02, 2023

    • Malaysia Accuses Chinese Barge of Looting World War II-Era Shipwrecks

      May 31, 2023

    • A Gloster Meteor Once Deflected A V-1 Flying Bomb With Its Wing

      May 30, 2023

    • HMS Centurion (1911): The British Dreadnought That Saw Action At Jutland and Was Purposefully Sunk After D-Day

      May 29, 2023

    • Grieving Mother Searches for Son Among Returning Austrian POWs

      May 29, 2023

    • WWII Veteran Fred Taylor Walks Across Graduation Stage 80 Years After Completing College Degree

      May 27, 2023

    • Gerda Weissmann Klein: The Holocaust Survivor Who Fell In Love With Her American Liberator

      May 26, 2023

    • Why Was ‘Casablanca’ Banned In Germany?

      May 26, 2023

    • ‘Gilligan’s Island’ Star Russell Johnson Was a Bombardier During the Second World War

      May 26, 2023

    • Before He Was Obi-Wan Kenobi, Alec Guinness Was Part of the Allied Invasion of Sicily

      May 26, 2023

    • American Liberator Welcomed with Kisses from Elderly French Couple

      May 25, 2023

    • Clergyman Prays for Fallen GIs During the Battle of Ie-Shima

      May 25, 2023

    • Ryan FR-1 Fireball: The US Navy’s First Jet-Engine Fighter Was Also the Worst Aircraft of World War II

      May 24, 2023

    • Germany Used Circus Elephants to Clean Up Following the Allied Bombings of Hamburg

      May 24, 2023

    • Sturmpistole: The German Handheld Grenade Launcher That Failed to Match More Powerful Anti-Tank Weaponry

      May 23, 2023

    • Before Becoming Hollywood’s Leading Man, Kirk Douglas was Chasing Japanese Submarines In the Pacific

      May 22, 2023

    • The M18 Recoilless Rifle Obliterated Enemy Machine Gun Nests In Korea

      May 20, 2023

    • Denholm Elliott Scored His First Acting Gigs While a Prisoner of War

      May 19, 2023

    • Chuck Yeager: From WWII ‘Ace in a Day’ to Breaking the Sound Barrier

      May 19, 2023

    • The ‘Rats of Tobruk’ Lived Underground During the Second World War

      May 19, 2023

    • These Nurses Had a Front Row Seat to the Battle of Monte Cassino

      May 18, 2023

    • Cargo from German Ship Sunk During WWII Washing Up On American Beaches

      May 17, 2023

    • The Ingenious Reason Farmers Painted Stripes On Their Cows During the Blitz

      May 17, 2023

    • Philip Toosey Served As the Inspiration for Lt. Col. Nicholson In ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’

      May 16, 2023

    • Henschel Hs 129 :The Luftwaffe’s Soaring Tank Buster Armed With a 75 mm Cannon

      May 15, 2023

    • Harry Belafonte Narrowly Missed One of WWII’s Deadliest Disasters On US Soil

      May 12, 2023

    • The Red Army Recruited Blind Citizens During the Siege of Leningrad

      May 11, 2023

    • Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star: The Only US Jet Fighter to See Action In WWII – During Secret Operations In Italy

      May 10, 2023

    • No. 1426 Flight RAF Flew German Aircraft Decked Out In Royal Air Force Insignia

      May 09, 2023

    • Normandy-Based Historians Create Documentary Honoring Canadian Regiment That Fought On D-Day

      May 08, 2023

    • The ‘Filthy Thirteen’ Were the Real-Life Paratroopers Who Inspired ‘The Dirty Dozen’

      May 08, 2023

    • Clint Eastwood’s Iwo Jima Duology Accurately Depicts the Battle from Both Sides

      May 08, 2023

    • Panzerschreck: Germany’s Much More Powerful Version of the American Bazooka

      May 05, 2023

    • Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse: The German Bomber Destroyer That Was No Match for Allied Fighters

      May 05, 2023

    • A WWII-Era Mystery for the Ages – What Happened to the French Submarine Surcouf?

      May 03, 2023

    • András Toma: The Last WWII Prisoner of War to Be Repatriated – In 2000

      May 02, 2023

    • Fort Drum: The Unsinkable Concrete Battleship That Guarded the Philippines

      May 01, 2023

    • Why Did a Test Pilot Wear a Gorilla Mask In Flight?

      April 28, 2023

    • USS Wisconsin (‘Temper, Temper’): How the BB-64 Battleship ‘Lost Her Temper’ in Korea

      April 28, 2023

    • The Tank Museum Releases 8,000-Brick Model of Tiger 131

      April 27, 2023

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    • Operation Copperhead Was Almost Compromised By A Drunk Bernard Montgomery Lookalike

      March 31, 2023

    • William Hopper: The Actor Who Played Paul Drake on ‘Perry Mason’ Served in the Navy in WWII

      March 31, 2023

    • NPS Researchers Explore Underwater Remnants of the Battles of Guam

      March 30, 2023

    • James Stewart Paused His Hollywood Career to Bomb German Strongholds In Europe

      March 24, 2023

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      March 24, 2023

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      March 22, 2023

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      March 21, 2023

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      March 20, 2023

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      March 17, 2023

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      March 17, 2023

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      March 14, 2023

    • The Little-Known Lost Battalions of World War II

      March 13, 2023

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      March 10, 2023

    • George Patton Called Creighton Abrams a ‘World Champion’ Tank Commander

      March 10, 2023

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      March 07, 2023

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      March 07, 2023

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      March 03, 2023

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      March 01, 2023

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      February 27, 2023

    • British Actors Who Served In the Military

      February 25, 2023

    • PTRS-41: The Powerful WWII-Era Anti-Tank Gun Destroying Modern Tanks In Ukraine

      February 25, 2023

    • Jewish Man Reunites With Family Who Hid Him and His Mother During WWII

      February 24, 2023

    • After 80 Years, the Fate Of the USS Cythera (PY-26) and Her Crew Still Remains a Mystery

      February 23, 2023

    • Mitsuo Fuchida Led the Aerial Attack on Pearl Harbor Before Finding Religion

      February 22, 2023

    • Wreck of Long-Lost USS Albacore (SS-218) Discovered Off the Coast of Japan

      February 21, 2023

    • The Battle of Cologne Saw a Legendary Standoff Between a Panther and a Pershing

      February 19, 2023

    • Frederic Walker: The Most Successful Anti-Submarine Commander During the Battle of the Atlantic

      February 17, 2023

    • Human Shadows Left Etched In Stone By the Atomic Bombs Dropped On Japan

      February 17, 2023

    • How Canadian Paratroopers Prevented the Soviet Red Army’s Westward Advance

      February 16, 2023

    • HMS Prince of Wales (53): The British Battleship That Took on Bismarck – and Survived

      February 15, 2023

    • Fritz X: The World’s First Precision-Guided Missile Took Out the Italian Navy’s Flagship

      February 14, 2023

    • Academy Award-Winning Actor David Niven Had to Fight to Serve In WWII

      February 12, 2023

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      February 10, 2023

    • The Tragic Story Behind One Man’s Refusal to Salute the Führer

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    • How the USS Yorktown’s (CV-5) Sacrifice Helped Lead the US to Victory at Midway

      February 09, 2023

    • 17 Powerful Images That Show the Human Side of War

      February 08, 2023

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      February 08, 2023

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      February 07, 2023

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      February 07, 2023

    • AVS-36: The Worst Rifle Ever Developed By the Soviet Union

      February 06, 2023

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    • John R Fox Ordered An Artillery Barrage On His Own Position to Save His Comrades

      February 03, 2023

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      February 02, 2023

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    • WWII Plans That Never Happened – There’s a Reason These Were Shelved

      January 27, 2023

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      January 27, 2023

    • Dwight D. Eisenhower Took Extra Measures to Ensure the Holocaust Was Never Forgotten

      January 26, 2023

    • The Laconia Incident Took More Lives Than the Sinking of the Titanic

      January 24, 2023

    • Workers At the Polish Post Office in Danzig Held Off a German Siege for 15 Hours

      January 23, 2023

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      January 23, 2023

    • ‘Crazy Major’ Henry Dobrzański Refused to Back Down Against the German Invasion of Poland

      January 20, 2023

    • German Generalleutnant Ernst-Günther Baade Wore a Kilt Into Combat During WWII

      January 20, 2023

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      January 20, 2023

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      January 18, 2023

    • Looking Back At the Red Army’s Liberation of Auschwitz

      January 12, 2023

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      January 11, 2023

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      January 11, 2023

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      January 10, 2023

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      January 10, 2023

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      January 09, 2023

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      January 08, 2023

    • USS Salt Lake City (CA-25): The Decorated Heavy Cruiser That Made Waves In the Pacific

      January 08, 2023

    • Award-Winning Actor George Kennedy Served Under Gen. George Patton

      January 06, 2023

    • Operation Frankton: When ‘Canoeing Commandos’ Took On the Enemy In Kayaks

      January 04, 2023

    • Operation Bodenplatte: The New Year’s Day ‘Hangover Raid’ That Devastated the Luftwaffe

      December 29, 2022

    • Sonderkommando ‘Elbe’ – Germany’s Aerial Kamikaze Force

      December 29, 2022

    • What Is the Real Story Behind WWII’s Famous Crying Child-Soldier Photograph?

      December 29, 2022

    • What Happened to the Jewish Soldiers Who Served with the German Army in World War I?

      December 28, 2022

    • Rod Serling’s Service In the Pacific Influenced the Anti-War Attitudes of ‘The Twilight Zone’

      December 28, 2022

    • Operation Chariot: The Daring British Raid on St. Nazaire

      December 23, 2022

    • The Real-Life Men Behind the Characters of ‘SAS: Rogue Heroes’

      December 22, 2022

    • Loss of the SS Cap Arcona: The German Prison Ship Sunk By the RAF with 5,000 Concentration Camp Prisoners Onboard

      December 21, 2022

    • Mariya Oktyabrskaya: The Red Army Tanker Who Avenged Her Husband

      December 21, 2022

    • Secretary Convicted of Complicity In 10,500 Concentration Camp Deaths

      December 21, 2022

    • Aleksandra Samusenko: The Only Female Tank Commander of the Second World War

      December 20, 2022

    • Letters Discovered In Used Book Reveal Mother’s Heartbreak Following Son’s Death at Pearl Harbor

      December 19, 2022

    • Oppenheimer’s Grandson Wishes Christopher Nolan Had Omitted One Scene From the Movie

      December 19, 2022

    • Amazing Discovery – Captured T-34 Found Decades After It Was Abandoned By the German Army

      December 19, 2022

    • Then and Now: Incredible Photos Show France During WWII and Today

      December 16, 2022

    • First Special Service Force: The ‘Devil’s Brigade’ That Struck Fear Into the Germans

      December 16, 2022

    • Photos That Showcase the Durability of American Aircraft During World War II

      December 14, 2022

    • The Wildest Photos Taken Throughout the Second World War

      December 09, 2022

    • Held Captive: Airman Richard Keirn Survived Being a Prisoner of War In Both WWII and Vietnam

      December 07, 2022

    • On-the-Ground Interviews Reveal Americans’ Reactions to Pearl Harbor

      December 06, 2022

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      December 06, 2022

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      December 06, 2022

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      December 05, 2022

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      December 05, 2022

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      December 02, 2022

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      December 02, 2022

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      December 02, 2022

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      December 01, 2022

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      November 27, 2022

    • Manila American Cemetery Is Home to More US WWII Dead Than Any Other Site

      November 25, 2022

    • 22 Images That Show the Many Faces of World War II

      November 25, 2022

    • These Helicopters First Took Flight During WW2

      November 24, 2022

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      November 23, 2022

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      November 23, 2022

    • The Integral Role Air Gunners Played During the First and Second World Wars

      November 21, 2022

    • High School Project Reunites Twin Brothers Seven Decades After WWII

      November 18, 2022

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      November 18, 2022

    • Bill Mauldin: The Unofficial Cartoonist of the Second World War

      November 17, 2022

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      November 11, 2022

    • Ernest Borgnine: The ‘McHale’s Navy’ Star’s Service During World War II

      November 10, 2022

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      November 09, 2022

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      November 09, 2022

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      November 02, 2022

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      November 01, 2022

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      October 31, 2022

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      October 26, 2022

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      October 25, 2022

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      October 21, 2022

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      October 21, 2022

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      October 20, 2022

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      October 18, 2022

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      October 14, 2022

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      October 11, 2022

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      October 11, 2022

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      October 11, 2022

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      October 11, 2022

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      October 07, 2022

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      September 30, 2022

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      September 29, 2022

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      September 23, 2022

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      September 22, 2022

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      September 22, 2022

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      September 21, 2022

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      September 20, 2022

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      September 16, 2022

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      September 16, 2022

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      September 15, 2022

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      September 12, 2022

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      September 09, 2022

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      September 09, 2022

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      September 06, 2022

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      September 02, 2022

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      September 02, 2022

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      August 31, 2022

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      August 30, 2022

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      August 26, 2022

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      August 24, 2022

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      August 23, 2022

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      August 22, 2022

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      August 19, 2022

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      August 17, 2022

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      August 16, 2022

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      August 15, 2022

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      August 14, 2022

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      August 12, 2022

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      August 11, 2022

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      August 09, 2022

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      August 09, 2022

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      August 05, 2022

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      August 04, 2022

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      August 01, 2022

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      July 29, 2022

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      July 28, 2022

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      July 28, 2022

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      July 26, 2022

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      July 26, 2022

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      July 25, 2022

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      July 25, 2022

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      July 22, 2022

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      July 19, 2022

    • Horizontal Collaboration: How Traitors Were Dealt With Following the Liberation of France

      July 19, 2022

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      July 17, 2022

    • Mass Graves of 8,000 Concentration Camp Victims Discovered in Polish Forest

      July 17, 2022

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      July 15, 2022

    • A Brazilian Air Force Pilot Managed to Fly His P-47 Home – With Part of Its Right Wing Missing!

      July 14, 2022

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      July 07, 2022

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      July 06, 2022

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      July 05, 2022

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      July 04, 2022

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      July 04, 2022

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      June 30, 2022

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      June 30, 2022

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      June 29, 2022

    • Ex-Concentration Camp Guard Sentenced to Five Years in Prison By German Court

      June 29, 2022

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      June 28, 2022

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      June 28, 2022

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      June 24, 2022

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      June 23, 2022

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      June 23, 2022

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      June 10, 2022

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      June 10, 2022

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      May 31, 2022

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      May 26, 2022

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      May 25, 2022

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      May 20, 2022

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      May 18, 2022

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      May 17, 2022

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      May 16, 2022

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      May 12, 2022

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      May 12, 2022

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      May 11, 2022

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      May 11, 2022

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      May 02, 2022

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      April 29, 2022

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      April 28, 2022

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      April 25, 2022

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