Get to know the actual people and events that inspired Steve McQueen's new film "Blitz," now streaming on Apple TV+.

Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial ...

There's no doubt that McQueen's World War II epic is among the most well-crafted films of the year, boasting some genuinely ...

A combat veteran, hero, airplane hobbyist and caretaker of protected land, Hal Urban provides a lesson on purpose and ...

A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would survive the war unscathed. On the ...

Patty Stevens, one of nearly 5,000 Americans held captive by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II, just celebrated her 100th birthday.

The USS Edsall, a World War II American warship, was bombed and sank three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The B-26 Botha’s design was flawed because there were too many operational requirements imposed that often ran counter to ...

In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: ...

A large cache of World War II-era bombs found in a Beatrice home proved to be non-explosive, but it still serves as a ...

Unlike that film, which took a familiar potboiler premise and gave it a distinctly political, feminist perspective, Blitz tells a story that — on paper, at least — feels positively Spielbergian. It ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War ...