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

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same ...

Isoroku Yamamoto was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Imperial Navy during the Second World War. He was a veteran of ...

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.

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.

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

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

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

Russia has lost around 1.2 million soldiers during the Ukraine War—a number that pales in comparison to its losses during the ...

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 ...