Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...

Martin Reid found the letters and photographs wedged within an antique desk just before the 80th anniversary of VE Day ...

The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched ...

The USS Laffey (DD-459) sunk in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on November 13, 1942. According to the USS Laffey Association, 59 sailors were either killed or lost in the bombing. The Laffey was ...

In a dark museum hall, a seven-year-old girl stared intently at a black-and-white image of corpses strewn haphazardly in a ...

Considered an essential piece of kit for every Marine, a wide variety of private-purchase and standard-issue knives were pressed into service in every theater of the war to tackle tasks ranging from ...

World War II was a time of unimaginable hardship, courage, and transformation. Seemingly overnight, ordinary folks were thrust into extraordinary roles on both the front lines and the home front ...

A pair of goods trolley rails, believed to be remnants of a wagon transport system from the World War II era, were discovered ...

Stanley became a prisoner of war along with 80,000 other Allied fighters and civilians.

Roman-era erotic mosaic panel stolen by Nazi captain during World War II returns to Pompeii The mosaic - dating between mid- to last century B.C. and the first century - stolen by a Nazi German ...

As the lead singer of Black Sabbath, he helped invent heavy metal. On “The Osbournes,” he presented a comedic counterpoint to ...