On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the Rhine. It was the last major airborne operation of WWII. Six weeks later, Germany surrendered.

The Torsk's sinking of the Japanese vessel marked the last U.S. submarine kill for over eight decades - that is until March 3, 2026.

The Grumman “Cat Flight” brings three legendary WWII-era Navy fighters into the same sky, flying together in a formation you almost never get to see anymore. The sight of these warbirds locked in step feels like history moving in real time.

FILE - An attendee asks Pearl Harbor survivor Ira "Ike" Schab, 103, to sign an U.S. flag during the 82nd Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin, File) World War II Navy ...

As a result, there is no question that some military inventions found a place during the war, but looking back today, they seemed so far ahead of their time. This applies to inventions like radar, the microwave oven,

Ira Schab, right, who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor as a sailor on the USS Dobbin, talks with reporters while sitting next to his son, retired Navy Cmdr. Karl Schab, on Dec. 7, 2022, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike ...