Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in "Masters of the Air," "Pearl Harbor," and "Flags of Our ...

In August 1945, North Field launched the two bombers that carried out the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons in ...

The opening of the North Carolina airfield follows the service’s June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday that a World War II prisoner of war was identified on Friday. U.S.

U.S. Army Cpl. Leo J. Barlosky was only 24 when he died of diphtheria at a prisoner of war camp on July 27, 1942, in the ...

Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer has returned to the tiny Dutch village that he and others in the 30th Infantry Division liberated from Nazi occupa ...

A World War Two bomb which was discovered in Newtownards in County Down has been blown up in a controlled explosion. The 500kg (1,100lb) SC-500 bomb was found at a building site at the Rivenwood ...

Wartime workers from Mexico, called “Braceros” or strong arms, filled critical labor shortages in America. Their overlooked service is being recognized by a new National Historic Landmark in Texas.

With the Battle of Midway raging in the Pacific in June 1942, Japanese forces 2,500 miles to the north were seizing control ...

They're big, intimidating, destructive, and possibly one of the most important assets utilized in World War II. The impact that tanks had on the battlefield during the global conflict cannot be ...

A drop in demand for holidays to Balearic Islands including Menorca, Majorca and Ibiza at the end of August and for the remainder of the holiday season has meant that some businesses have been ...