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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces ...

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion played a crucial but overlooked role, clearing a backlog of millions of pieces ...

President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation designating May 8, 2025, as Victory Day for World War II in the U.S.

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

Hundreds of villagers and relatives of the fallen watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers who died in one of the last large World War II battles fighting for Adolf ...

World War II in Europe ended on May 8 ... "We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything — That’s because ...