World War II, which claimed the lives of 40 million civilians and 20 million soldiers, was a tragic time when seen through a humanitarian lens. However, it is poetic how the period, in which the ...

World War II veteran Onofrio Zicari , 96, connected with the family of friend Donald E. Simmons, who died on D-Day, after a relative saw his story on "World News Tonight With David Muir" last week.

There are about 66,000 surviving World War II veterans in the United States, Crean said, and while that may sound like a lot, it's a tiny fraction of the 16.4 million who served their country in ...

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 ...

Examine Bob Hope and his troupe of performers' impact on World War II. Legendary entertainer Bob Hope and his troupe of performers traveled over 80,000 miles during WWII to entertain the troops ...

The World War II had a fair share of weird and poor performing military equipment, from rats that could blow up factories to attachments that could bend bullets (supposedly).