Santa Anna was a decorated World War II bomber pilot. He was also a descendant of the Alamo conqueror. 'They're going after dead veterans,' his daughter says.

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Georgy Zhukov was Stalin’s top general. During World War II, he led the Red Army from victory to victory, but when peace ...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to ...

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.