Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago ...

Alan Turing, born on June 23, 1912, was a brilliant mathematician and codebreaker. He made significant contributions to ...

Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a date when we honor and mourn U.S. military personnel who died while serving the country. Supreme Court declines religious freedom case over mining on ...

Memorial Day is for honoring and remembering the men and women who ... exhibit and taking pictures on Sunday with guests was World War II Veteran George Leland. "I'm over 100 years old.

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...

This Wednesday marks the 85th anniversary of one of France's most famous radio broadcasts: Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of June ...

During World War II, combat camera operators fought the war in the European, African and Pacific theaters not with guns, but with Bell and Howell’s Eyemo cameras--hand-held, hand-wound 35 ...

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops made at Utah Beach.

A Bosnian woman mourns next to the grave of her relative, victim of the Srebrenica genocide, in Memorial Centre in Potocari, ...

2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. was buried beside his parents and sister in the California town he left in 1943. For many years after 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. was killed in World War II, his parents ...

In the days after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed a shellshocked shadow of ...