This week, we had the rare chance to hear from one of the few remaining World War II veterans—102-year-old John Smith, a ...

Woonsocket's U.S. Rubber Company produced inflatable tanks and other equipment for the "Ghost Army," misleading ... significance of Rhode Island in World War II and there are many aspects of ...

A major military parade in Moscow a week ago was just one of many celebrations of the victory of the United States and its ...

In 1943, at the peak of World War II, the British military took over the community and its surrounding area for training purposes - and no one has lived there since. It remains a deserted ghost ...

Europe will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender on May 8. But thousands of locals remain committed ...

Crew of the “Heaven Can Wait” bomber in Papua New Guinea. 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. is the middle figure in the back row, ...

World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects ... Many other captured soldiers did not make it home. Those from the Soviet Red Army who had been forcibly recruited by the German ...

In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

By Karoun Demirjian Reporting from Washington The only all-Black, all-female Army battalion to serve in Europe during World War II was awarded Congress’s highest honor on Tuesday, in a ...

The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally ...