Most people are aware that Boeing's B-29 Superfortress was the plane that made the first atomic attacks. However, the B-29s delivering America’s first atomic weapons were far from ordinary.
The USS Utah (AG-16) had a long and sometimes peculiar career before the veteran warship met its end at Pearl Harbor.
From the Manhattan Project to Hiroshima and atomic diplomacy.
Herbert Heilbrun describes the Christmas 1944 mission he took part in to bomb the oil refineries at Brux, Czechoslovakia and how well defended the area was.
On March 18, 1945, the biggest wartime bombing raid on Berlin showed that the German air force was still a dangerous and defiant foe.
Join us in conversation with Rona Simmons, author of No Average Day: The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944, which chronicles the US Armed Forces’ single deadliest day of World War II.
Would the legendary prehistoric reptile known as Godzilla have emerged without World War II?
Learn about the history of the United States' decision to use nuclear weapons on Japan and how to teach this event through a range of primary and secondary sources in this free virtual teacher workshop.