A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

In “Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories of World War II,” two American literary writers discovered their ancestors fought on ...

Norman’s mind was shattered in the sky above the refinery,” writes Jo Spencer, whose father was a gunner on a doomed B-24 ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

July 29 has always been a day of remarkable milestones across the globe.Back in 1914, the outbreak of World War I began to ...

John Gilbert Winant, the ambassador to Great Britain in the early 1940s, became the first head of the Social Security ...

Harold Terens fought in World War II. He’s lived almost 102 years, celebrating his birthday a couple weeks early with family ...

The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, first flown in 1935, became a defining weapon of Germany’s early WWII campaigns. Its inverted gull ...

Douglas Bader overcame the loss of both legs in a pre‑war crash to become one of the Royal Air Force’s most celebrated aces.

World War II pilot Charles W. McCook died in action in 1943 but his remains were not identified for more than 80 years. He ...

Harold Terens fought in World War II. He’s lived almost 102 years, celebrating his birthday a couple weeks early with family ...

World War II, the world's deadliest international conflict, left almost 80 million people dead. Here's what started it and why it ended in 1945.