"It shows the resiliency of the U.S. Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor," head curator Dr. Voula Saridakis said of the ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

The remains of World War II wharfs where the German U-Boats famously surrendered to the Allied Forces at Lisahally has been ...

For the Allied forces, the skies over Europe from 1942 to 1943 brought near ruinous casualty numbers. The odds of a B-17 crewman surviving the 25 missions required to complete a tour were only one in ...

"Germany invading Britain is always the funniest one to me. They could have smashed the RAF into oblivion and still not been ...

Most historians and scholars agree, the proximate start of the Second World War is Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939, because at that point, Hitler's invasion causes Great Britain and ...

The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that ...

Allan J. Lichtman revisits the World War II case that established naval commanders' duty to protect shipwrecked survivors.

Not yet recognizing the extent of the defeat all along the front, Hitler and his generals saw their reverses merely as a ...

Many know the Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster, and Mosquito as the ‘A-listers’ of British aircraft of the Second World War.

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 ...