The designation recognizes the contributions of local towns, cities, counties and their citizens who supported the war effort ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s easy, amid all the destruction and suffering in Gaza, to overlook what is happening as little as 34 miles away in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. For much of the past 11 months—during ...