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

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

Set 100 miles southeast of Berlin in Poland, the 900 guards of Stalag Luft III oversaw 10,000 or so prisoners, all Allied ...

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

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

Kenneth Kramer, just 20 years old when he died, was from Washington state and appeared to have no connection to Michigan, officials said.

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The European Commission says it’s protecting farmers with a smaller but ring-fenced budget. Europe’s farmers say the cuts ...

An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...

Heroes of World War 2, a historical real-time strategy game developed by Best Way. Players will take control of American, British, Soviet, or German forces to fight in battles set in World War 2. The ...

The remains of an Army private from Detroit who died as a World War II prisoner of war in the Philippines have been identified 83 years later — almost to the day — and are set to be reinterred in ...