Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...

Jake Larson, the World War II veteran and social media star known as "Papa Jake," has died, his granddaughter posted on his ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

Hedge End was officially classified as a "safe area” and deemed suitable for the reception of evacuees fleeing more vulnerable cities ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The Jackson County History Center is looking for pictures of World War II and Vietnam veterans to be displayed in a special ...

Any war brings unimaginable suffering, but World War 2 in particular was one of the most horrifying periods in human history. Millions of lives were lost, and atrocities were committed on a scale the ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

World War II veteran Leslie Sinclair was on duty manning a defensive ‘pit’ in case of a Japanese attack near Balikpapan in Borneo when he heard the joyful cries of his brothers-in-arms shouting out – ...

Berlin's Final Battle delves into the dramatic and brutal final days of the Third Reich as Soviet forces closed in on the German capital. Witnessing the intense street-to-street fighting, Waffen SS ...

WSAZ’s Hannah Hayes has the story of a World War II veteran who’s our latest Hometown Hero. At 102 years old, U.S. Army ...

Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...