Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment ...

Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...

Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr, said its troops would be stationed along NATO's eastern flank in Lithuania, and the ...

Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...

The National World War II Museum expands yet again with the groundbreaking of the new Floyd Pavilion, which will be used to ...

Camp Century was built to store nukes beneath Greenland's ice. See photos of the underground, "Star Wars"-like site.

He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.

Germany has formally commissioned its first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War II in Lithuania, in response ...