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What Happened to Lieutenant Curtis R. Biddick?
Spoilers ahead for Episode 3 of Masters of the Air.
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V for Victory: A Sign of Resistance
Created by a Belgian politician and broadcaster fleeing Nazi persecution, the V for Victory symbol became one of the most enduring signs of the war.
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The Origins of International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The commemorations on January 27 remind us that the Holocaust was the result of step-by-step decisions by individuals that led to the largest genocide in the history of mankind in a wave of antisemitism, intolerance, and hatred.
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The 'Bloody 100th' Bomb Group
The Eighth Air Force’s hard luck unit was filled with colorful personalities who made the unit one of the most storied of World War II.
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The Air Medal: An Effort to Bolster Morale
Authorized during the one of most difficult periods during the air war, the Air Medal was an effort to rally the US Army Air Forces crews.
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The Night of Broken Glass, Never to Be Forgotten
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was the Nazi dictatorship’s declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews in November 1938.
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The Fallen Crew of the USS Arizona and Operation 85
The Operation 85 project aims to identify unknown servicemen who perished aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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'Maxwell Opened My Eyes': Rosa Parks, WWII Defense Worker
Before her historic protest in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks was a Home Front worker at Maxwell Airfield.
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Patchwork Plane: Building the P-47 Thunderbolt
Roughly 100 companies, coast to coast, helped Republic Aviation Corporation manufacture each P-47 Thunderbolt.
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The Cairo and Tehran Conferences
In a series of high-stakes strategic conferences in late 1943, the Allies made several key decisions that shaped wartime strategy, while reflecting the changing balance of power between the Allied nations and foreshadowing the postwar emergence of the bipolar world.
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The Sinking of the HMT Rohna
Classified for 50 years, the sinking of the HMT Rohna remains one of the least known—yet most catastrophic—events of World War II.
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The Chopping Block: The Fate of Warplanes after WWII
After the war, hundreds of thousands of US warplanes remained—but the military needed only a fraction of them.