When the Rangers won the 1940 Stanley Cup, World War 2 was underway but players didn't enlist until after the Cup triumph.
During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ships were being sunk by German U-boats, warships and aircraft. In 1940 alone, ...
and Ann Arbor stepped up to help in various ways as World War II persisted. Many community members enlisted to serve overseas, while back home wartime efforts ranged from war bond drives to scrap ...
In many ways, Christmas 1940 was the first war-time Christmas of World War Two. Celebrating during heavy rationing and restrictions – whilst surviving heavy bombing and coping with the threat of ...
fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940 and thus dealing Nazi Germany its first major defeat in World War II: “Never in the field of human conflict was so ...
The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain in World War Two. The raids killed ... of rubble after a bombing raid in 1940. (Getty Images) Firemen who fought ...
Shot putter Al Blozis was a two-sport star on the track and football field, but his career was tragically cut short by World War II. Blozis dominated the shot put as a student-athlete at Georgetown ...