The two leaders secretly plan to divide Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between ... Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. Germany captures Paris, and France ...

While better-known bombers grabbed the headlines, the Soviet Tu-2 played a vital but often overlooked role in the outcome of World War II. Fast, versatile, and deadly, it was a game-changer on the ...

Under this umbrella, the Spanish volunteers of the 250th Infantry Division served on the northern or Volkov front. Both the Germans and Franco ... about the Spanish Blue Division experience in World ...

Eastern Front, take the fight to the Eastern theater of the second World War and battle over the expansive steppe, from the streets of the smallest rural villages to the ruins of the largest ...

While serving in Germany’s Luftwaffe in World War II, Erich Hartmann flew more ... How did Hartmann get so good at dominating the skies over the Eastern Front? What were his beliefs?

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

Noted naval historian Craig Symonds has given us a short, comprehensive global history of World War II ... account of the war at sea, and its fundamental effect on the global war. The importance of ...