Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds and the Hitler Diaries
Can we trust historical documents to be genuine - and how do we know that a dramatic news report is actually just an unusually skillfully acted play? About Orson Welles radio play "War of the Worlds"(1938) which led to panic around the US as people tried to escape the invading Martians that the program warned of. And the sensational publication in the German newspaper Stern in 1983 of what were claimed to be Hitler's handwritten diaries.
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The Battle of Midway
Following the embarrassment caused by the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, the Japanese devised a climactic battle over the island of Midway intended to finish U.S. naval power in the Pacific. On June 4th 1942 three aircraft carriers of the United States and and four of Japan fought a battle that changed the course of World War II.
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