On his day of celebration, we learned of Idelfonso Quibin's duty, his sacrifice and his fight to make sure what he and his ...

In downtown Manila, rows upon rows of headstones are laid out on the gentle slopes of a hilltop, the largest single burial ground for US World War II casualties.

In 1942 on Guadalcanal, Japanese soldiers entered the jungle convinced that courage, discipline, and night attacks would once ...

Don Sarver of Kansas City, Missouri, celebrated his 104th birthday last Thursday. The former World War II torpedoman believes ...

During World War II, American scientists created a weapon that made anti-aircraft fire several times more deadly. The ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.

Before becoming an acclaimed sprinter on the world stage, Paddock served in field artillery during World War I. It was not a ...

Large parts of Dresden's Old Town were evacuated on Wednesday as experts sought to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge. Some 17,000 people were ...

Classics like The Best Years of Our Lives and modern gems like Dunkirk are among the best movies made about World War II over ...

The discovery of a World War II bomb in Slovakia's capital during construction work prompted evacuations on Tuesday, officials said. The emergency measure covered several blocks in downtown Bratislava ...