The cigarette camp “Camp Lucky Strike” was a bustling tent city of 58,000 impatient American troops awaiting transportation back to the United States after Victory in Europe. Lucky Strike was described as both “seventh heaven” and complete chaos.

In June 1944, USS Texas battled the largest German gun battery in the Cherbourg area in support of the VII Corps’ push on the city.

Alan Turing helped the British government pioneer the technology to decrypt Nazi Germany’s secret communications during World War II. In 1952, Alan Turing was forced to endure chemical castration by the same government after being prosecuted for homosexual acts.

Once Hitler declared a place a "stronghold," his men had no choice but to fight to the death.

The origins of an iconic movie line and the refinement of rules for the treatment of prisoners of war.

The men of the African American 761st Tank Battalion entered combat at Morville-les-Vic on November 7, 1944. In an "inferno" of battle, they proved their worth in the first of a series of hard fought battles.

Born of desperation, the British tank attack at Arras on May 21, 1940 was a tactical failure with major strategic implications—and it may have helped to save the British army.

When restoring a vehicle, paint is one of the most important aspects.

Even as World War II in Europe officially ended in May 1945, bitter fighting erupted across Eastern Europe as local partisans fought the Soviet occupation.

Hitler was the first dictator of Germany but he was not the last. His handpicked successor was a little known career naval officer named Karl Dönitz.

The Canadian offensive on Verrières Ridge, led by the Canadian Black Watch, was a savage "forgotten fight" that helped ensure General Omar Bradley's US Army breakout from Normandy in Operation Cobra.

How a Signal Corps photographic team took one of the most iconic images of Omaha Beach.