The Nazi scientists acknowledged that the project was beyond their conceivable reach for the sake of the war—speculating that ...

In a country with strong pacifist traditions due to its dark World War II history, German student Mika Scheid had never ...

Barrage balloons were used by many countries in WW2, including Britain and the U.S., and played a vital role in the Normandy ...

The loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse paved the way for Japanese forces to make a successful run on Malaya and ...

Essentially, the Danzig Crisis was an incident between Poland and the Free City of Danzig (today known as Gdańsk). The Polish government believed it had the right to both station warships across ...

Harry Humason, who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis, was shocked when hundreds of grateful Czech citizens donated to pay ...

Germany designed the flawed Heinkel He-177 Greif heavy bomber to reach enemy targets far from Germany and outrun enemy ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

As the war in Western Europe began reaching its inevitable conclusion, German efforts to expedite arms production led to some ...

1837 Wild West figure Wild Bill Hickok is born in Troy Grove, Illinois. A frontiersman, lawman, marksman and army scout, he ...

Richelieu was the lead ship of France’s last class of battleships, constructed in the 1930s to counter Italian and German ...

In 'Behind the Lines', a powerful new documentary narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the Center for American War ...