This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave​, which took 739 lives. One of them was a World ...

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

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

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...

Critically acclaimed, the film made $321 million worldwide, which was Tarantino’s highest-grossing movie at that point, ...

Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. ( WAFF) - A Tennessee Valley World War II veteran is turning 100 years old! Mr. William Morrow spent the day surrounded by friends and family during his centennial celebration. But ...

Grandma Jeanne Richmond turns 100 Sunday. She was born July 20, 1925, as Helen Jeanne Hoppe. She never really liked the name ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.