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 ...

The tiny island in Hiroshima Prefecture hosted a poison gas plant of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, leading ...

A rare Curtiss SB2C Helldiver returned to the skies on July 19 at the National Museum of World War II Aviation, marking its first public flight after a 45-year restoration journey.

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 ...

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

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

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

Experience history up close as the B-29 Doc, P-51 Gunfighter, and C-47 That's All, Brother visit Kansas City for ground tours ...

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