World War II was decided by more than strategy and manpower. The weapons each side brought to the battlefield often ...

During World War II, American scientists created a weapon that made anti-aircraft fire several times more deadly. The proximity fuse was used by the U.S. Navy while the U.S. Army was forbidden from ...

In September 1943, the Italian battleship Roma was steaming toward Malta to surrender to the Allies when a pair of German Dornier Do 217 bombers appeared overhead. The planes released two Fritz X ...

World War II accelerated weapons innovation at an unprecedented pace. As global conflict intensified, the United States rapidly expanded and refined its arsenal, adapting existing designs while ...

After World War II, the U.S. faced a monumental logistics problem across the entire Pacific: getting rid of nine million tons ...

In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its allies with a wide array of weapons and equipment Boeing played an integral ...