Videos

WWII Battles

Video: Newscast Following Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack

Entertainment & Culture

Video: ‘Jungle Drums’ Cartoon Superman Outwits Nazis

World War II

Video: Nazi Germany Fighting the Soviets on the Eastern Front

WWII Figures

Video: Nazi Germany’s Africa Corps (DAK) Running Field Missions

World War II

Video: German Voiceover of Nazi Panzer II in Action

World War II

Video: Nazi Germany Tiger Tank Firing in Action

World War II

Video: German Artillery Rounds Being Fired by Nazis

World War II

Video: German Panzers in Action in World War II Nazi Germany

World War II

Video: Watch the Nazi German Marder III in Action

World War II

Video: Polish Army Running Drills Before Nazi Invasion

World War II

Video: Nazi Tank Panzerkampfwagen IV Destroying at Normandy

Entertainment & Culture

Video Tour: Steam-powered La Esperanza Sugar Mill at West Point Foundry

2000s

Video: 2013 Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Run Honoring Military Personnel

WWII Battles

Video: Final Reunion of the Doolittle Raiders

World War II

Video: “The Battle of Russia, Part 1” Film Follows the Nazis into Russian Territory

Figures/Biographies

Video: Federalist Papers, Amending the Articles of the Confederation

Today in History: Born on April 15

1622

Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French comic dramatist best remembered for his play La Tartuffe.

1716

Philip Livingston, signatory to the Declaration of Independence.

1823

Mathew Brady, Civil War photographer.

1906

Aristotle Onassis, Greek tycoon.

1908

Edward Teller, Hungarian-born U.S. physicist known as the "Father of the H-bomb."

1929

Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1945

Princess Michael of Kent (Baroness Marie Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz), married to Prince Michael of Kent, grandson of Britain's King George V.

1948

Ronnie Van Zant, singer, songwriter; founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd band.

1982

Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia.

Military History

Book Review: Crucible of Hell

Saul David recalls Operation Iceberg, the grueling and horrific 1945 campaign to capture Okinawa

WWII Figures

Book Review: Double Crossed

Matthew Sutton follows four U.S. missionaries and religious leaders tapped by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II

Asia

Book Review: Battle for Skyline Ridge

Vietnam veteran and former agency operative James Parker examines the CIA’s leading role in the fight in northern Laos