John "Lucky" Luckadoo flew 25 bombing missions over Europe during the war, surviving some of the most intense air battles of ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

World War II was the deadliest conflict ever fought, reshaping the globe forever. Beginning with Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, it spread across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. The ...

An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be toxic to marine life.

Just two weeks after American forces landed at Normandy on D-Day, Jack Leroy Tueller, one of those Americans, was taking sniper fire with the rest of his unit. Instead of sitting helplessly, Tueller ...

Paintings coveted by Nazi leaders were taken from a Jewish family in Paris in 1943. They were last seen — until now — at ...

Berlin city officials have asked people to evacuate from a central area in the German capital following discovery of an ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — World War II veterans and others gathered at the National World War II Memorial on Sept. 2 to commemorate the end to the conflict which pitted Allied forces against Axis ...

AT CHINA’S Victory Day parade on September 3, Xi Jinping delivered a warning — the world stands at a crossroads between peace ...

South Africa played a considerable role in World War II, but this is being wiped from our historical memory. This year is the 80th anniversary of the allied victories over Nazism in Europe and ...

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor gravely damaged the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet's strength, but fortunately, no American aircraft carriers were sunk in the attack. As a result, when the United States ...