Almost 80 years after the guns of Europe fell silent on May 8, 1945, he is now among the dwindling few from that conflict still among us.

A famous piece of history is now on display at the USS Midway Museum. An F4U-4 Corsair, a fighter-bomber which mainly flew in ...

The Type 95 is in a league of its own. It was mass produced, meaning that the Japanese were forced to rely on it—despite the ...

Italy on Friday said an unexploded artillery shell hit the base of the Italian contingent in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in ...

The struggle to recapture the Italian peninsula from Axis forces has sometimes been overshadowed by other World War II ...

Ever since the days of the Roman Empire, European countries have dreamed of uniting the continent again under one government.

Among his work was flying more than 100 flights to prepare actors for scenes in US Navy F-18 Hornets for the Top Gun sequel. Actor Miles Teller, who had a leading role as Lieutenant Bradley ...

The United States Navy commissioned a new destroyer over the weekend in New York City, and it was named after legendary World ...

Troops trained at Camp Hale fought in World War II, then went on to found the Colorado ski industry. "Don't give the enemy ...

During WWII, Einstein was kept stateside to work on weapons and teach soldiers how to maintain their ... Butler became part ...

Rose DeJesus, 97, could remember her brother Joe Saracino well, mainly that he was like any young man at the time she last ...

When I got through those years, I had a list of 70 local young men killed in WWII. The number was overwhelming to me, as Chico was a town of only 21,000. Many later appeared on my list of top ...