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

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, ...

U.S. Army Pvt. Roman Cherubini was serving with the 475th Infantry Regiment in the China-India-Burma Theater when he was ...

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

Local readers have recently emailed to help answer questions posed by Photos From the Vault over the last few weeks. Here’s ...

About 16 million people from the U.S. alone participated in World War II, on the front lines or in ways that supported the troops... including some of the most famous people of the mid-20th century.

The story of Helias Doundoulakis is like a great war movie. It is the story of the Greek spy who helped Greece and the United ...

Wyoming veterans on Honor Flights to visit their memorials in Washington, D.C., also received special “thank you” notes from ...

The Cherry Valley American Legion and local officials will rededicate the 19 Gold Star Squares and other monuments and ...

To the northeast of the airfield, hidden on private farmland, lies a World War Two bunker. Reports from 2011 indicate that ...

Russia, continuing its slow but steady military advance, remains deeply sceptical of a temporary ceasefire, fearing it could ...

We need new thinking—something that doesn’t come naturally to large bureaucracies like the one in the Pentagon—about national defense. A guiding principle of that new thinking must be that the defense ...