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Italy's first battleship engagement of WW2: The Battle of Calabria, 1940 - animated

The Battle of Calabria, fought on July 9, 1940, was a key naval engagement between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the ...
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34th World War II Weekend wraps up at the Reading Regional Airport with 1940s reenactments

BERN TWP., Pa. - The 34th World War Two weekend is wrapping up in Berks County. The sights and sounds of the 1940s came alive this weekend with reenactments. People could explore artifacts from World ...

There's a racetrack at the bottom of Lake Burley Griffin? Giddyup!

It's a steamy summer's afternoon on Lake Burley Griffin. As I paddle away from Springbank Island towards Sullivans Creek, a ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Cricket cartoons illustrate a match to rival the Ashes played by prisoners of war during WWII

In a prisoner of war camp in 1944 in southern Poland, as wet, wintry conditions set in, England and Australia played a game of cricket. It wasn't a typical match but it was, for the men involved, as ...
Foreign Policy

U.S. Strategists Keep Getting France’s Defeat Wrong

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USA enters WW2 in 1940!

The World War seems to get bigger and bigger as Italy plans to invade Greece and the USA takes a stance. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices in tour of San Antonio businesses Bombshell report ...
The Courier-Journal

Retro Louisville: Jeffboat helps build ships for World War II in the 1940s

Jeffboat built a reputation as one of the country's largest inland shipyards, and while the company is known for the massive towboats launched into the Ohio River, large World War II-era vessels also ...
Food & Wine

How a 1940 Glenlivet Scotch Survived World War II to Become the World’s Oldest Single Malt

With a suggested retail price of $168,000, the record-breaking whisky will debut in a handblown decanter designed by architect Jeanne Gang. Tony Sachs has written for numerous publications about ...
The Indianapolis Star

Indianapolis World War II soldier's remains returned to family after 1940s recovery mix-up

(This story was updated to correct an inaccuracy. U.S. Army Pvt. LeRoy B. Miller Jr. was 19 when he went missing) Family chatter about childhood memories was shared as an escorted vehicle drove to an ...
Yahoo News UK

Step back in time at free 1940s street party with live music, military vehicles and World War II reenactors

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited (Reach Publishing Services Limited) A spectacular 1940s street party with live music, ...
People

Researchers Stumped After 1940s Car Is Found Inside Sunk World War II Aircraft Carrier

The USS ‘Yorktown’ was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and now rests at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing ...