Historical events Archive
Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
Operation Crossroads Test Baker an underwater plutonium bomb test at Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands 25 July 1946.
A Japanese soldier looking at US propaganda in the Philippines, 1943
Russian POW’s. Russia, Operation Barbarossa 21 June 1941
German soldiers in camouflaged armoured personnel carrier at the front in the Belgian-Luxembourg area during the Battle of the Bulge, end of December 1944.
WWI. British troops advance in the Battle of the Somme, 1916.
American troops advancing under fire near Arnhem during Operation Market Garden, 1944.
Monuments Officers Ernest De Wald and Roger Ellis sift through the rubble of the Abbey of Monte Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944. (National Archives (239-RC-55-33)) caption
US Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless flies patrol over the USS Washington and USS Lexington during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign 1943
The Battle of Guadalcanal