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Forget D-Day, This World War II Battle Was More Important

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Japanese Flags Over Honolulu? Here's How Imperial Japan Could Have Won World War II

.S. military and Philippine government officials attend a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the fall of Corregidor to the Japanese during World War II on Corregidor, Cavite, May 6, 2017. U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Corey Pettis.

Thousands of Americans Surrendered At This Battle. Forty Percent Never Made It Home.

Enthusiasts dressed in historical World War II uniforms and depicting prisoners of war, participate in historical reconstruction, to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Veliky Novgorod from Nazi occupation in Veliky Novgorod, Russia January 20,

Would the Axis Win World War II If Japan Attacked Russia Instead of America?

America Dropped a Nuclear Weapon on Japan Nearly 75 Years Ago (It Was the Right Call)

China May Have Learned More From Pearl Harbor Than America

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Cabanatuan Raid: How America Rescued 489 Japanese Prisoners of War

This Aircraft Carrier Survived Four Kamikaze Attacks And Sailed to Tell the Tale

Bureaucracy Be Gone! The Navy Must Remember the Seabees Fighting Spirit

Bad Leadership Nearly Doomed This World War II Aircraft Carrier

Talk About a Beast—This WWII Carrier Survived Four Kamikaze Attacks