second world war
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School Assignment Leads To Discovery Of WWII Plane With Pilot’s Body Still Inside
When 14-year-old Daniel Kristiansen was assigned a World War II project for history class, his father jokingly suggested he look for a German plane that had allegedly crashed at the family farm. Well wouldn’t you know it, he actually found the damned thing — along with the dead airman’s remains. It’s being called one of…
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Heinrich Himmler’s Lost Wartime Diaries Confirm He Was A Total Bastard
Work diaries chronicling the daily activities of Hitler’s henchman Heinrich Himmler have surfaced in Russian military archives. The recovered texts speak volumes about a key figure behind the Holocaust — a man who could orchestrate mass killings at one moment and then casually switch to mundane family matters the next.
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A Rare Glimpse Of A US Seaplane Lost In The First Minutes Of The Pearl Harbour Attack
For the past 20 years, divers have unsuccessfully tried to explore and photograph a PBY-5 Catalina seaplane shot down during Japan’s opening salvo of the Pearl Harbour attack. Now, some 74 years after that fateful day, archaeologists have finally accomplished the task. Here’s what they saw at the bottom of Kāne‛ohe Bay’s murky waters.