A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...

World War II is “fertile storytelling ground” for the new book “Hold Strong,” writes AP reviewer Rob Merrill about the work ...

World War II is “fertile storytelling ground” for the new book “Hold Strong,” writes AP reviewer Rob Merrill about the work ...

The Allies fed that erroneous assumption — and delayed critical ... awards for the liberation of Mauthausen; the World War II ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

Economically, technologically, and militarily, China poses the greatest strategic challenge to the United States since the ...

The United States and Canada have the longest peaceful, undefended border in the world, running 5,525 miles between 8 ...

There is, it turns out, a little examined strain of history that provides a fresh way to understand his instincts. Hidden in ...

Hidden Spies of World War II” is a collection of vignettes of 52 courageous women, most of whom spied for the Allies in ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

World War 2 is probably the most studied, analyzed and widely known catastrophe in human history. This is partly because of just how big the thing was, and partly due to the technology available at ...

Two key chapters of the Black American experience in World War II have enjoyed recent moments in the popular culture spotlight. The Tuskegee Airmen’s support role in the Allied European bombing ...