It was 1939. Germany, under the leadership of Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler, had already annexed Austria, the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia without much problem. The Americans considered Germany ...

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

A new book from an Upstate South Carolina author is taking a closer look at an often-forgotten battle from World War II.

The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military ...

World War II produced some of the most recognizable military weapons ever made, but few were more important than the rifles issued to ordinary soldiers. Millions of troops depended on these firearms ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...

World War II, which concluded 80 years ago, was a historic event that defined a generation. Tens of millions of people fought brutal oppression and an unfathomable Holocaust. Today, the world ...