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

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

The World War II Aviation Museum recently flew a restored plane that was recovered from the bottom of a Washington lake more ...

At the end of the Second World War, the cemetery contained the remains of more than 20,000 war dead, most of them Americans and all of them “adopted” by locals in gratitude for their sacrifice ...

Considered an essential piece of kit for every Marine, a wide variety of private-purchase and standard-issue knives were ...

As the nation celebrates VE Day, thoughts turn back to some of the great Second World War stories of heroism, triumph, and indomitable spirit. We’re also reminded of the painful reality of the ...

This is the inspiring story of the Talalla brothers, Cyril, known as Jimmy, and Henry, known as Sonny, who made the long trip ...

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

The V-1 flying bomb, also known as Vengeance Weapon, buzz bomb, or doodlebug, wreaked havoc in England during World War 2. At ...

World War II, the deadliest and most destructive conflict in human history, reshaped the world as we know it. In this video, we take a closer look at what it was truly like to live through the chaos, ...

Can "anything new be said about the Second World War", asked Adam Sisman in The Observer. "Unexpectedly the answer is yes." Among the "surprising facts" I learnt from this "revelatory book" are ...