Behind a small wood plank, homeowner Jason Hurdle spotted a long-forgotten crawlspace stuffed with vintage milk pails, a safe ...

That’s an explosive find. A Texas man found live World War II-era grenades inside a box he bought at an estate sale, ...

More than 100,000 U.S. troops landed on Leyte Island in October 1944, opening the campaign that returned Douglas MacArthur to the Philippines.

If you’re a history buff, you’ll want to press play on Tom Hanks’ new 20-part documentary about World War 2. Now streaming on the HISTORY website, World War II with Tom Hanks “reexamines World War II ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: If you gave me one guess as to who would be executive producing a 20-part documentary series about World War 2, I’d confidently say Tom Hanks. And I’d be correct! On ...

Goebbels promoted the Nazi message through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, and the press, and censored all opposition.

A new book explains how Lucky Luciano and other mobsters helped secure New York's ports during World War II. Getty Images In the dark hours of June 13, 1942, a German U-boat surfaced off the coast of ...

A 104-year-old Massachusetts woman has received her brother's World War II dog tags 83 years after he died in a 1943 plane crash off Florida. The tags were discovered among old military records, and a ...

The Department of the Interior today announced the designation of Whittier, Alaska, as an American World War II Heritage City, recognizing the community’s extraordinary contributions to the nation’s ...

After 84 years, the remains of Corporal Delmor W. Erwin, a World War II soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp ...

A World War II soldier from Luzerne County will be laid to rest. 27-year-old Army staff sergeant Charles Knecht of Nescopeck was reported missing in action after a battle in Germany on November sixth, ...