"If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs, we never could have landed over an open beach," Eisenhower said in 1964, expanding on his claim that Higgins won World War II. "The whole ...

Andrew Higgins wasn't in the Army. He wasn't a paratrooper. He was a wild and wily genius, a tough, crafty, businessman. And he built the built the boats that brought troops ashore at Normandy on ...

Forged in the fighting of World War II, the cavity magnetron was the heart of radar signals used to identify attacking German forces. The magnetron itself was truly an international effort ...

In the span of only a few days in October, the USAAF was forced to reconsider its entire strategic bombing endeavor in the European theater, according to the National World War II Museum.

his military-grade version fueled America’s unstoppable amphibious attacks across the globe in World War II, from Normandy to Iwo Jima.

It was arguably the most dangerous job it was possible to have in the RAF during World War Two. Flying unarmed and unarmoured, pilots of the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) weren't expected ...

Throughout the Cold War, and ever since, each side has tended to see its own contribution as decisive. "In the West, for some time... public opinion has taken the view that the Soviet Union played a ...