For more than a decade, a group of survivors have fought a legal battle to get American courts to hear their suit against ...

Long before he was dueling Darth Vader in Star Wars, Sir Alec Guinness starred in this tour de force WWII film as Colonel Nicholson, a British POW who, with his unit, is tasked with building a railway ...

Merrill’s Marauders crossed Burma half-starved, sick, and outgunned, but still took Myitkyina airfield and carved the bloodline that runs straight into today’s 75th Ranger Regiment.

Divers have found the wreck of the Hofuku Maru off Luzon in the Philippines. The Japanese freighter sank in 1944 with over 1,200 Allied POWs; a digitised military file finally solved the mystery. View ...

The ship was essentially a floating concentration camp and was lost for decades until an organization found a document revealing its location.

Oregon’s holiday train rides are beloved, but one excursion is getting a little extra attention this offseason. Mount Hood Railroad announced Thursday that its Polar Express Train Ride, based on the ...

A depot on World War II’s infamous “Death Railway” has resurfaced from beneath a reservoir where the site has remained underwater for decades, prompting researchers to race to western Thailand to ...

A depot on World War II's infamous "Death Railway" has resurfaced from beneath a reservoir where the site has remained underwater for decades, prompting researchers to race to western Thailand to ...

A Canadian Pacific train close to the small town of Pritchard, in British Columbia (Mariano Mantel/Flickr) Locomotive engineers and train-service workers at Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) have ...

After decades beneath the surface, a submerged station from World War II's infamous “Death Railway” has resurfaced in ...

KANCHANABURI, Thailand — A depot on World War II’s infamous “Death Railway” has resurfaced from beneath a reservoir where the site has remained underwater for decades, prompting researchers to race to ...