The P-47 Thunderbolt was the most-produced American fighter of WWII: 15,636 built. Read its specs, variants and ground-attack record.
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The M4 Sherman tank was the most-produced American tank of WWII: 49,234 built. Read its specs, variants, combat record and legacy.
The MG42 was Germany’s general-purpose machine gun of WWII, firing 1,200 rounds a minute. Read its specs, design, service and legacy.
Trench Warfare defined the Western Front in WWI. Learn how it worked, why it stalemated armies, and its cost at the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955): physicist, author of relativity and E=mc², exile from Nazi Germany, and the 1939 letter that helped launch the atomic age.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945): leader of Nazi Germany 1933–45, the road to power, the Second World War and the Holocaust, documented.
Joseph Stalin (1878–1955): Soviet leader from the 1920s to 1953, industrialisation, the purges, and the USSR’s war against Germany.
Winston Churchill (1874–1965): British prime minister 1940–45 and 1951–55, wartime leader, orator and Nobel Prize-winning writer.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945): 32nd US president, the New Deal, Lend-Lease, Pearl Harbor and the Allied conferences of WWII.
The Holocaust was the systematic murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, 1941-1945. History, sites and remembrance.
