The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have visited Okinawa to pray for the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary marking ...

The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one ...

A small town in Normandy, France, is honoring the sacrifice of the 28th Division this weekend. Nine soldiers were killed in ...

A World War II veteran who lives in Lincoln got a very special birthday surprise Saturday afternoon.ALSO READ: Memorial Day ...

"People not only served but they were willing to lay down their lives so we can enjoy our daily freedoms," says one mother using the memorial as a teaching opportunity for her homeschooled son.

German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

Dorothy Furey, the New Orleanian car thief, escaped poverty and the “Gothic dysfunction” of her childhood to become the first American woman cleared to fly in World War II. Virginia Farr came ...

Eighty years ago, the end of World War II paved the way for a new international order based on respect for national sovereignty and borders. But now, a steep bill for American ambivalence, European ...

Maj. Donald K. Willis crash-landed his plane in Nazi-occupied Holland then stopped at cafes for beers — all while evading the ...

Authorities in the German city of Cologne have defused three unexploded World War Two bombs after the evacuation of more than ...