He was involved in both the European and Pacific theaters during World War II, which included the landing at Normandy. He spent 27 years in the military, and was awarded the Bronze Star for ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

WASHINGTON — During the height of World War II, more than 900 service members, civilians and crew aboard the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester sailed through the North Atlantic for Greenland.

"In combat, they would just charge forward from the tree line, like in a World War II movie," Ihorovych recalled. Assaults during World War II often had high casualty rates. He said his troops ...

Relatives of a World War II hero who thought their family member was "just a cook" were stunned to discover he was part of a secretive unit. Captain Leslie Scott's collection of Special Allied ...

The Latest Historic images from 80 years ago show the unprecedented scale of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, changing the course of World War II. World War II was America’s ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, the Netherlands' largest war archive is going public. No longer classified, it contains the names of hundreds of thousands of people who were ...

Salvaging the U-505 German intelligence was vital during WWII, making recovery efforts for the sinking U-boat a top priority for the Navy task group. German Capt. Harald Lange, who commanded the U ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Poland on Wednesday after the two nations reached an agreement over a historical dispute: the exhumation of Polish victims of World War II-era war ...

What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf”) Wight, author and the real James Herriot? MASTERPIECE got the fascinating facts and sometimes surprising timeline from All ...

The government has ordered offshore energy firms to avoid "noisy" detonations when disposing of unexploded bombs on the seabed, in a bid to protect vulnerable marine life. There are still more ...

I am a musician who has spent a good deal of his touring life in the Netherlands. Holland was the first country in Europe that took to my music in a major way, beginning in 1988 when I began ...