After four attempts to negotiate the surrender and retrieval of the civilians entrenched at the Alcazar of Toledo with its ...

In the summer of 1944, the imminent defeat of Nazi Germany was coming closer every day, although the Germans were willing to ...

France has released a new postage stamp honouring British-Indian spy Noor Inayat Khan, the first woman radio operator sent to ...

The US Navy, in coordination with the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, removed significant portions of two World War II-era ...

Marine Log hosted its annual Top Women in Maritime Celebration on December 2 at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, drawing nearly 300 attendees—up from 225 last year—for an evening recognizing ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

Like most Americans, Christine Kuehn always mourned the tragedy at Pearl Harbor, haunted by the some 2,400 souls who perished ...

When Stanislawa “Stasia” Krygowska Woltosz, nee Ferus, was a teenager in the southeastern Polish village of Odrzykon, she ...

As aggressively as the U.S. pursues immigrant enforcement, it has also invited and recruited immigrant workers.

Eighteen tribes of the state took centre stage, presenting a rich tapestry of traditional dances and cultural expressions. A ...

Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. He wrote and signed a confession admitting his crime. He refused five ...