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 ...
The 2,400-acre "Elko tract" was transformed into a dummy Air Force base to trick possible incoming bomber pilots into ...
Elementary school history lessons aren’t often taught by history makers, but the man at the front of this Kirkwood classroom ...
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 ...
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.
During his time in the Navy, veteran Richard Young captured some of the most raw and powerful moments of World War II. Young ...
Durwood “Bud” Buchheim, 101, of Sun Prairie, and John Storer, 97, of Maple Bluff, are among the estimated 100,000 or fewer ...
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 ...