Sir David Attenborough was just 12 years old when World War II began, but some of his actions made a positive impact on two ...

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 ...

Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead ...

Behind the dreamy scenery of the HBO show’s latest location lurks an explosive story of Thailand’s involvement in the ...

In January 1940, the destroyer HMS Exmouth was hit by a torpedo, and sank with the loss of all crew on board. Now, thanks to ...

Long thought to be a family heirloom, the artwork was actually gifted to the British prime minister in 1942 during the darkest days of World War II Eli Wizevich Likely removed by Nazi researchers ...

"In adversity, there is opportunity," that is the focus of this week's Remembering Our Veterans story. Tom Balkovic, Vietnam ...

uh, World War II actually made her career as she would ... with an unenviable task: untangle a more than 2-year backlog of undelivered mail for troops serving in the European Theater of operations.

Archival images from the last weeks of World War II, taken by an American Army combat photographer during a push across eastern France into southern Germany ...

Some World War II veterans took a step back in time earlier this week. It’s been decades since they deployed, and they’re ...