US Marines launched a scathing attack on Iwo Jima island during World War II. Capturing the island, about eight kilometres ...

The lemon-lime drink, known to have been made in San Antonio and El Paso, is one of the most obscure and mysterious of fizzy ...

Carl Schrat, a World War II veteran who served in the navy, was joined by Gov. Jim Pillen and honored at a World War II medal ...

Discover the highest amount of troops from each of the U.S. States that fought in World War II. The post The States That Had ...

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

Although the devices found during construction work were practice bombs, they can be harmful. Officials said there could be ...

The Latest Historic images from 80 years ago show the unprecedented scale of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, changing the course of World War II. World War II was America’s ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during World War II.

Prof Weindling leads a research project to identify victims whose brain samples were taken during World War II and to ensure their proper commemoration. "One overlooked group is certainly ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...