Due to winds and other factors, most bombs miss their targets. January 8, 1945: 1945 General Curtis LeMay arrives in the Marianas to take over the 21st Bomber Command, the B-29s. January 20 ...

Helga Prenzel was born in 1933 in what was then Warschau, now Wroclaw, Poland. Together with her family, she made her way west in an open horse carriage in the cold winter of 1945.

Richard Dimbleby describes the scenes of almost unimaginable horror that greeted him as he toured Belsen concentration camp shortly after its liberation by the British in April 1945. Bergen-Belsen ...

In 1944 alone, the United States built more planes than the Japanese did from 1939 to 1945. By the end of the war, more than half of all industrial production in the world would take place in the ...

I know only one thing: that I must not burn." On 13 February 1945, British aircraft launched an attack on the eastern German city of Dresden. In the days that followed, they and their US allies ...

The Big Three - Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin In February 1945, three men met in a holiday resort to decide the fate of the world. Nazi Germany was on its knees.

Roosevelt helmed the government during the prologue to America’s involvement, the declarations of war in 1941, and through the prosecution of the war to final victory in 1945, although he would not ...

In the summer of 1945, leaders from 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to agree upon an international treaty to enshrine the equal rights of all people and maintain peace. This resulting ...

An election was called for 5 July 1945. Voting closed on 19 July to allow enough time for soldiers stationed abroad to vote. The two leading parties were Clement Attlee’s Labour Party and ...

The 2024/25 UEFA Conference League season will conclude at Stadion Wrocław in Wroclaw, Poland, bringing an end to another adventure that encourages fresh talent to flourish. The home of two-time ...

Thirteen indicators were used to calculate Wroclaw University of Science & Technology's overall Best Global Universities rank. Here is a breakdown of how this institution ranked relative to other ...

This engaging and accessible book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the rich body of American poetry that has flourished since 1945 and offers a useful map to its current landscape. By ...