What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress earned its legendary status as the bomber workhorse against Germany and occupied territories during ...

Imperial Japan sent its first wave of kamikaze suicide planes to the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines on Oct. 25, ...

The USS Stewart became known as the "ghost ship of the Pacific" during World War II when American troops spotted it sailing in Japanese waters, despite the ship sinking at a Japanese port over a ...

Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out of societal norms to take on roles that were essential to the Allied ...

Those precise drone strikes were a sign of things to come. More than two years into the war, the TB2 is still a fixture of ...

(These are World War II’s biggest battles.) Throughout the war, there were pivotal battles that turned the tide for one side or the other but these all came at great cost. The military assets ...

Kyodo via AP Images Eight decades after World War II, an American bomb left over from the conflict exploded at a regional airport in Japan. Though the blast left a large hole in a taxiway and led ...

The man who made '12 Years a Slave' shows the trauma of a family living with the reality of German bombing. Saiorse Ronan, ...

Visit after sunset. – Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor The World War II Memorial was dedicated in 2004 to the 16 million American military members who served during World War II, including the ...

to those held in internment camps during World War II. “It’s flat-out offensive. It’s a night-and-day difference what happened,” David Inoue, executive director of the Japanese American ...