“I’m learning about World War II from the internet” is a genuinely concerning phrase to hear these days. I promise you, however, that the following are refreshingly based on actual historic records ...

A Des Moines man is soon to be posthumously recognized for his role in a top secret troop designed to confuse and intimidate the Germans in World War II. Information about the Ghost Army had been kept ...

A Des Moines man is soon to be posthumously recognized for his role in a top secret troop designed to confuse and intimidate the Germans in World War II. Information about the Ghost Army had been kept ...

On the eve of World War II, when Archibald MacLeish, the Librarian of Congress, announced that his fellow librarians “must become active and not passive agents of the democratic process,” he may not ...

In 1940, just more than 11 million women were employed outside the home. By the end of World War II, that number had spiked to more than 20 million women. Part of the reason for the jump was the ...

(Reuters) - The wreck of the USS Lexington, an American warship sunk in a Pacific naval battle during the Second World War, has been found by a team working for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The ...

World War II caused an estimated 75-85 million deaths, including 26 million military and 59 million civilian casualties, with 17.6 million murdered during the Holocaust era, affecting various groups.

Around 80 percent of the more than five million German military deaths in World War II occurred on the Eastern Front. This terrible conflict with the Red Army consumed great quantities of men and ...

His phrases ‘deep remorse’ and ‘heartfelt apology’ became templates for Japanese leaders marking WWII anniversaries.

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday ...