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

Nazi Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945 thanks to the courage and conviction of young Americans who knew that isolation is no ...

The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships during World War II. It was also the site of a successful emergency appendectomy ...

At the dawn of World War II, an army of 42,000 Nazi soldiers marched into northwest Poland en route to the country's capital, Warsaw. But they were stopped at the tiny village of Wizna — by a Polish ...

A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship, which ...

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

George Gobel was one of the Hollywood types who answered his country’s call in 1942. At the time, he was a little-known ...

(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) Workers of the German War Graves Commission exhume the remains of German WWII soldiers in ...

Hundreds of villagers and relatives of fallen soldiers watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers ...