Evacuees who escaped a devastated Yorkshire city by boat are being urged to come forward as preparations continue for the ...

The U.S. Navy has some of the most advanced nuclear submarines in the world. Its newest addition is named after an important ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 3. "During the Frankfurt Trials against concentration camp officers, the statements of witnesses were recorded. I once listened to ...

Eighty years ago, American troops were home for Christmas for the first time in years. For the previous four years, troops had faced holidays away from family, and in whatever conditions the war ...

Notice the person at the helm on the top deck to get a feel of just how big the 264-foot-long, 305-foot-tall Royal Huisman sailing superyacht is. Notice the person at the helm on the top deck to get a ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

I lose track of the number of times people have tried to translate the tabletop experience to the world of videogames. Even putting the countless Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons adaptations aside, ...

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...

The Nazis couldn’t stop them back then, and so the cold air and biting, constant wind blowing across the National Mall wasn’t going to stop them Tuesday. A group of World War II veterans were among ...

Raphael Morris has never been to his uncle's final resting place, the U.S. military's only cemetery in the Netherlands—although a trans-Atlantic trip is on his bucket list. To go and see where U.S.

Mr. Darman, a journalist and historian, is the author of “Becoming FDR.” Eighty-one years ago this week, men from the advancing U.S. Army stood in a rain-soaked farm field in Margraten, the ...

Some 1.25 million Pennsylvanians fought in World War II, and more than 33,000 died in the world's deadliest conflict. However, the number of World War II veterans — the "Greatest Generation" as coined ...