Another significant wave of immigrants followed the Spanish Inquisition. At the start of World War II, a diverse North African Jewish population of roughly 500,000 coexisted with Muslim neighbors.

World War II movies, of which there are many, are set across the world as well. Across Europe, Africa, and Asia, if there was fighting, there is probably a movie about it.

B-24s in the world still flying provide the opportunity to experience the sights and sounds of our fathers and grandfathers in the dangerous air wars over Europe, the Pacific, North Africa and Asia.

As one of the most sinister aircraft to serve in World War II, the Junkers Ju 87, otherwise known as the "Stuka," was a dive bomber notable for its shallow V-shaped wings. It was fitted with ...

Britain’s oldest World War II veteran, Donald Rose, has died at 110. Rose participated in the D-Day landings in 1944 and helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. On ...

American tanks proved to be some of the fastest on the battlefield in World War II, making them a formidable force, striking and quickly maneuvering across battlefields in Europe and North Africa ...

STUTTGART, Germany — Five construction workers were hospitalized Thursday after an unexploded World War II-era phosphorus bomb at Patch Barracks was accidently struck, releasing some of the ...

In World War II, the United States wasn't fielding a professional, all-volunteer army. The soldiers who fought in North Africa, Europe and the Far East were largely drafted.

The U.S. Navy was the only power whose battleships ever fired their guns in anger after 1945, but the role those warships played in World War II simply can’t be overstated.

World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and secret protocols to it between the Soviet Union and the Third ...