It's been 80 years since the cities of dust and ash clouds hanging over Europe. Today, World War II and the fields of killing ...

The once impenetrable German Atlantic Wall lay shattered by the Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy.

During World War II, a Japanese Navy destroyer called the Teruzuki sank in the Pacific waters near the Solomon Islands. Now, ...

It was Saturday afternoon, February 12, 1944, when “a fragile little woman . . . walked into the editorial rooms of The ...

A group of Chicago-area veterans traveled to New Orleans Wednesday to see for themselves a museum built in their honor.

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

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

In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by ...

Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave​, which took 739 lives. One of them was a World ...

One woman wondered back in September if it was her grandfather, Richard Yarling. We try to find out if he was the oldest ...