world war II

Let's look at some more things you might not even know were invented by Louisianians.

An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning.

"Voices from the Front" at the Louisiana World War II Museum brings veterans to life, allowing visitors to converse with people who lived through the war.

The iconic battleship in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is on the move.

He'll be buried in St. Landry Parish in May.

This US soldier found a camera when he was in Europe after D-Day, and decided to film parts of his journey into Germany.

The soldier's hometown was New Orleans before he was killed during fighting in the Pacific during WWII.

Cue the waterworks!

Did you know that part of WWII was fought in the Gulf of Mexico? Nazi shipwrecks in the Gulf show just how close the war came to Louisiana.

In Munich, Germany, an Allied Forces bomb from World War II was found in the ground. The 550-pound explosive was discovered on Monday night by workers at the site of a building that was being demolished. It couldn't be defused, so they had no choice but to detonate it. Watch the video of the explosion after the jump.

About a month before the start of Word War II, Mahatma Ghandi wrote a letter to is 'dear friend' Adolf Hitler urging him not to start the war that we all now know the outcome. This is an interesting insight into some history.