Images

An aerial view of the Ledo Road in Burma (Myanmar), a land connection between India and China used by Allied troops during the Second World War (1939-45) following the closure of the more famous Burma Road. The road was in use from February...

A photograph of captured French colonial troops from Africa during the Fall of France to Nazi Germany in June 1940 during the Second World War (1939-45). Imperial War Musuems

Denmark Vesey Monument in Hampton Park, Charleston, South Carolina. National Park Service / Sobol.

Front view of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944. This B-29, called 'Fifi', is one of only two B-29s still capable of flying.

A Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944. This B-29, called 'Doc', is one of only two B-29s still capable of flying.

A photograph taken on 1 June 1945 showing a Boeing B-29 Superfortress flying over Japan on its way to bomb Osaka in Japan during the Second Wolrd War (1939-45).

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress 'Bockscar' with a replica of the atomic bomb 'Fat Boy' it dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945 during the Second Wolrd War (1939-45). (National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton...

A Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944.

A photograph of the 'Enola Gay' on the Marianas Islands. This was the US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress which dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 in the final stages of the Second World War (1939-45...

This map illustrates the route and story of the Kon-Tiki Expedition (1947), a groundbreaking voyage led by Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), in which a crew of six sailed a balsa-wood raft from Callao, Peru, to Raroia Atoll in the Tuamotu Islands...