Tributes paid to true British hero haunted by guilt for 80 years after surviving D-Day

Tributes have been paid to Royal Navy hero Cyril Stanley Ford.

Inside Operation PLUTO, the Allies’ Brazen Attempt to Build the Impossible

BY WAR’S END, the pipes had delivered roughly 206 million gallons—enough to fuel about 14 million jeeps for 300 miles each, ...
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June 22, 1944: The day Hitler’s Eastern Front began to collapse

Three years to the day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the Red Army struck back. In the days leading up to June 22, 1944, partisan attacks severed German communications across Belarus, ...
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A U-Boat Killed 763 American Soldiers on Christmas Eve in 1944. The Army Kept It Secret for 50 Years

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...
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Levi’s Reproduces One of Its Most Coveted Vintage Jackets, but There’s a Catch

During WWII, every American business was forced to make sacrifices and accommodations to support the war effort. Levi’s adapted to wartime rationing, imposed by the American government, by simplifying ...
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10 Movies From 1944 That Are Now Considered Classics

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...