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VT RADIO: Secret War, Unsung Heroes, Victory in Europe with retired Air Force Colonel Mark Vlahos

Host Johnny Punish welcomes author and historian, retired Air Force Colonel Mark Vlahos to discuss his latest book "Leading the Way to Victory: A History of the 60th Troop Carrier Group 1940–1945"

On This Day In 1941, The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor Changing America Forever

At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu.

U.S. War President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Turned Blind Eye to Soviet Spies

Learn How the CIA Created a Fake Western Reality for ‘Unconventional Warfare’

Part 3 of The Universal Empire: A Four-Part Series from VT's Fitzgerald and Gould

On this November Day in 1942, Nazi German Troops Take Vichy France

On November 10, 1942, German troops occupy Vichy France, which had previously been free of an Axis military presence.

Order Given To Bomb Pearl Harbor on this Day in 1941

On November 5, 1941, the Combined Japanese Fleet receive Top-Secret Order No. 1: In just over a month's time, Pearl Harbor is to be bombed, along with Malaya (now known as Malaysia), the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.

WAR CRIMES? 78 Years Ago Churchill Incinerated 100,000 Defenseless Civilians in Dresden

Meet The People Who Were Burned to Ashes on Ash Wednesday

On This Day in History in 1940, United States Imposes The Draft

The Burke-Wadsworth Act is passed by Congress on September 16, 1940, by wide margins in both houses, and the first peacetime draft in the history of the United States is imposed. Selective Service was born.

WWII Nazi Officer Returns Love to Once Invaded City

During WWII German paratroopers land on the island of Crete overrunning and capturing the small fishing village. This is a war story of redemption and forgiveness based on a true story.

The Rape of Germany During and After the Nuremberg Trials

Ilya Ehrenburg: "If you kill one German, kill another—there is nothing more amusing for us than a heap of German corpses."