Although the devices found during construction work were practice bombs, they can be harmful. Officials said there could be ...

Two American veterans of World War II who fought to free the Philippines in 1945 are headed back to help mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila.

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over the Germans. To ensure the ground effort got to Berlin, the air war had to ...

WASHINGTON — During the height of World War II, more than 900 service members, civilians and crew aboard the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester sailed through the North Atlantic for Greenland.

Vanguard isn't for everyone. Luckily for history buff gamers, World War 2 is a popular setting for shooters and strategy ...

One of the most inspiring anti-Nazi German heroes of World War 2 was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who vocally condemned Adolf Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of ...

Nazi Germany was the target of sustained attack by the Allies throughout the Second World War. But it was Adolf Hitler's refusal to admit defeat in the closing months of the conflict that led to ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, the Netherlands' largest war archive is going public. No longer classified, it contains the names of hundreds of thousands of people who were ...

A new species of predatory dinosaur that lived in North Africa 95 million years ago has been identified—some 80 years after the only specimen was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.

In December 1941 Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, causing the U.S. to enter World War II. Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in ...