The Armistice ending the Great War was slated to go into effect at 11:00 AM on November 11, 1918. Just an hour and a half ...

The USS "Edsall," a 314-foot-long destroyer, fought off Japanese forces for more than an hour before sinking beneath the ...

In 1949, Orchard Field Airport in Chicago, Illinois, was renamed O’Hare International Airport in O’Hare’s honor. The site ...

U.S. Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024); Zach ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

During his time in the Navy, veteran Richard Young captured some of the most raw and powerful moments of World War II. Young ...

President-elect Donald Trump will have a golden opportunity afforded to few leaders in the history of humankind: winning a ...

As a photojournalist, visual storyteller, and founder of the nonprofit organization WWII Veterans History Project, I’ve spent ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

Durwood “Bud” Buchheim, 101, of Sun Prairie, and John Storer, 97, of Maple Bluff, are among the estimated 100,000 or fewer ...

Amid the bright flowers at The Californian, a small senior center in Woodland lies a living treasure of American history: ...

Discover the Senegalese Tirailleurs, African skirmishers who served in the French army during World War II. Recruited from across West Africa, they carried the hopes of nations and earned their place ...