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Features May 1, 2011

The Archaeology of Internment

ARCHAEOLOGY, with its unique ability to discover details of daily life often left out of personal journals and official histories, is now being used to document the lives of WWII's interned, among them more than 100,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese, and millions of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, criminals, homosexuals, and political prisoners.

Features May 1, 2011

The POW Camp Made Famous by The Great Escape

Designed to contain those who had already fled previous detainment, the German POW camp Stalag Luft III was built in the woods of modern-day Poland as far as possible from non-Axis territory.

Features May 1, 2011

The Early Days of Nuclear Warfare

One of WWII's most infamous legacies is that it is the only war to have involved nuclear weapons.

Features May 1, 2011

Gearing Up at the Desert Training Center

he Mojave Desert was once the largest training ground in the history of warfare. In 1942 and 1943, a million soldiers passed through the Desert Training Center (DTC), or California/Arizona Maneuver Area, 28,000 square miles where an inexperienced American military learned to operate in a harsh environment...

Features May 1, 2011

Cracking the Code

Originally used to encode business transactions and ward off corporate espionage, during WWII the Enigma machine became a powerful and widely used weapon employed by the Nazis for encryption and decryption of military secrets.

Features May 1, 2011

World War II Aircraft Crash Sites