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

A Nazi captain gave artwork, which depicts an intimate Roman romance, to a civilian. When he died, his heirs decided to ...

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

Thomas was a member of 48th Material Squadron, 5th Air Base Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in ...

An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum allows guests to sleep on the USS Cobia, a World War II submarine it lists on Airbnb.

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

Nearly 83 years after his death, a World War II veteran listed as missing in action is finally being laid to rest.Private First Class Norman Thomas, of Verbena, was a 20-year-old prisoner of war at ...