World War II was a great tragedy ... Tensions escalated into full-scale war by 1937. This map shows the situation in 1940; the areas in pink were under Japanese control. Japan never gained ...

Maps, both historic and newly created by National ... simultaneously in a vast Japanese offensive that expanded World War II enormously. No nation invested more in naval air power before World ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New ...

On that day, 75 years ago, the armies that would fight what became World War II had gathered. Just how many soldiers that meant differed by nation, as TIME pointed out to its readers with the map ...

In World War II, clandestine maps were printed onto cloth handkerchiefs ... To me, this ‘purgatory’ church, full of its fearful decorations, sculptures and paintings, also represented the ...

In just a few weeks, a World War II museum in Delaware will welcome a new, historic artifact – an enormous map documenting a rear admiral's travels, as well as every U.S. submarine lost in the war.

Wielding metal detectors, shovels and copies of the map on cellphones, prospectors have descended on Ommeren — population 715 — about 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Amsterdam to try to dig up a ...