Seventy years ago, Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous offensive through the quiet Ardennes Forest in Belgium. Adolf Hitler and his planners in Berlin achieved total surprise, and initially German forces gained considerable ground. For many Europeans among the Allies, the attack was...read more

Planned in September 1944, the World War II German offensive launched in mid-December of that year had as its objectives sealing a peace treaty with the Allies and trying to get the Americans and British to turn against the Soviets.

It certainly had the element of surprise, as no German...read more

JOURNEY TO ROYAL, tells the story of Lt. Royal A. Stratton, a 22-year-old rescue pilot who died heroically saving the lives of nine of his fellow airmen in the South Pacific during WWII.  Royal and his Squadron flew into extremely dangerous combat zones, without any munitions,...read more

Two giant second world war-era undersea vessels capable of launching seaplanes lie on seabed near USS Kailua, well-preserved despite 1946 sinking by torpedo.

Researchers at the University of Hawaii have discovered a miraculously preserved “ghost ship” on the seabed off Oahu, alongside the...read more