The Jeep’s creation was far from straightforward—it was a story of fierce competition, military urgency, and surprising ...

Navy photo of the USS Ward’s Number Three Gun and its crew. They were Minnesota reservists credited with firing the first ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of ...

The novelist who brought three of the “greatest heroines” of World War II to life in back-to-back gripping stories will lecture in Lockport as part of the Secret Weapons of World War II: Women, Books ...

In her book "Small Town, Big Secrets," historian Sally J. Ling shares how 28 Black cadets came to Boca Raton to be trained on radar, some of whom would become Tuskegee Airmen.

From Looney Toons characters to shark teeth to pinup models, nose art on aircraft has a storied history in air forces around ...

“It’s a question that’s more topical than ever,” Tulkens said as she presented the report, “The Belgian Railways and the deportations during the Second World War,” to the Belgian Senate’s Committee on ...

In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...

With over 5,000 players in NBA history, at least one player was born on every day of the calendar year – including three leap-day ballers. Our day-by-day breakdown of the players born on each day of ...

A report by a Group of Wise concluded that the Nazis paid the SNCB/NMBS to deport 25,843 Jews and 351 Roma from Belgium to ...

The USS Becuna submarine sank 3,888 tons of shipping and earned four battle stars in World War II.

I toured the USS Becuna, a World War II battleship and the only submarine of its kind left in the world. Take a look inside.