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Spielberg-Hanks WWII series ‘Masters of the Air’ gets premiere date

'Masters of the Air' is the third installment, alongside “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific," of the Spielberg and Hanks-led World War II trilogy.

That time the Army replaced a cake it stole 77 years earlier in WWII

Soldiers stole the cake from a windowsill in 1945.

Race to find Great Lakes shipwrecks before mussels destroy them

Seemingly unstoppable invasive quagga mussels from Russia and Ukraine threaten U.S. maritime history.

Navajo Code Talkers museum is about $40 million shy of reality

Only three of the original Navajo Code Talkers are still alive.

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Barbenheimer: Unleashing the transformative power of the bombshell

The histories of nuclear energy as a World War II product and Barbie as a postwar creation are inextricably linked.

WWII paratrooper famous for bringing beer to wounded troops dies at 98

Vincent Speranza, an American paratrooper who became known as the soldier who doled out beer to his wounded comrades, died Wednesday at 98.

How a mother managed to save her son at Guadalcanal — from Ohio

"My mother had put her arms halfway around the world to save me," Elgin Staples later recalled.

A flag carried by a WWII Japanese soldier is returning to his family

Known as a Good Luck Flag, it was displayed for 29 years at the USS Lexington Museum in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Leon Gautier, last member of French D-Day military commando unit, dies

Leon Gautier was the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion.

Meet the real WWII tanker who inspired Brad Pitt’s character in ‘Fury’

Lafayette G. Pool was the “ace of tankers.”