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 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 ...

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

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 ...

The staff at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum have just completed a project to digitize more than 1,000 photographs taken ...

The Avro Manchester was Britain’s early answer to the Luftwaffe—but its underpowered and unreliable engines doomed it from the start. Yet its failure directly gave birth to the legendary Avro ...

A 45-year-old man in Ghaziabad was pulling off a unique scam by pretending to be the ‘ambassador’ of Westarctica, an ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s oldest World War II veteran, Donald Rose, has died at the age of 110. Rose participated in the D-Day ...