On June 22, 1941, the armed forces of Germany and its allies launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Stretching from ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

Verdun is synonymous with 1916, but we are here for a different turning point - August 31, 1944, when the US 7th Armored Division liberated the town. Using Life Magazine photographer Ralph Morse’s ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.

Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl ...

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

DNA testing helped identify the body of Lt. Morton Sher, a member of the Flying Tigers, killed in action in 1943 during a ...

When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most ...

The Trump administration's deadly boat strikes are set against an increasingly militarized version of Christmas ...