It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

A collection of rare medals belonging to a Battle of France war hero who survived being captured by the Germans is set to fetch thousands after being discovered. Major Harold Henry Merton served in ...

When World War II started, Africa was (save for certain exceptions) a tapestry of colonies. A third of the continent’s ...

When one thinks of antisubmarine warfare (ASW) weapons of World War II, chances are the depth charge is the first ... text caption to their video titled “The Super Weapon that Turned German U-Boats ...

PARIS, March 7 (Reuters) - Paris' Gare du Nord, Europe's busiest train station, ground to a halt on Friday while an unexploded World ... the war. Sign up here. Although the bomb was found 2.5 ...

In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...

A world that was still nursing wounds caused by World War I was now hearing, on a daily basis, that frightening events were unfolding in both Europe and the Pacific. Hitler’s German Reich was ...

The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France ...

German Wehrmacht Infantry Soldier's Military Equipment Of World War II. Rifles, Flasks And Bag Tank For Anti-gas Hanging In Tree Trunk. Vintage weapon, soldiers shoot from machine gun. Soviet uniform.

Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...

Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...