War History

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

World War II ended before these tunnels built to protect vital oil from Japanese bombs were ever used.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

This World War II relic let Allied pilots know they were entering neutral airspace.

The abandoned shell of what would have been the Jordanian royal family's summer palace.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.