This Belgium rifle managed to do what no other rifle had done before it. Find out why the FN Fal makes the list as one of the top combat rifles around!
This Austrian weapon sets the standard for what semi-automatic rifles to be. Find out why the Steyr AUG makes the list as one of the top combat rifles around.
The Tuskegee 99th is officially activated and leading the pack is Captain Benjamin O. Davis, a West Point graduate, who endured many challenges during a time of segregation.
Following the sinking of The Normandie naval ship, America is shocked when reputed New York mobster, Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, takes credit. The event sparks the beginning of one of the strangest relationships during World War II.
On December 8, 1941 more than 12,000 people were lined up and marched out of the city to meet their death, creating "Bloody Sunday," the second largest massacre of Jews during World War II!
It's a convenient fiction that the Germans alone were responsible for the Holocaust. The awful truth is that some of the worst offenders were not German but were Latvian Viktor Arajs, a group who actively participated in the killing of 30,000 Jews.
Lou speaks with Sergeant Debra K Mooney of the Oklahoma National Guard about the language developed by a number of young Navajo men who transmitted secret communications on the battlefields of WWII.
Private Hal Baumgarten of the 116th Regiment was wounded five times during D-Day, but to him, none of the wounds he suffered in battle cut deeper than the question of why he survived and many others did not.
By early 1944, Hitler faced a new threat. In the West, Allied preparations to invade north-west France were coming to a climax. It was an attack he had long been expecting.