The greatest World War II movies ever capture one of the most devastating conflicts in history in historically accurate and often deeply personal ways.

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...

Mr. and Mrs. Alan B. Cutting were held prisoners of war by Japan during World War II. Picture published Wilkes-Barre Record Feb. 13, 1945. Declassified in 1991, the Cuttings are among 3,000 ...

The novel is a work of historical fiction by Robert Dugoni, written in partnership with academic researchers Jeff Langholz ...

About 1,400 firearms and 1,200 swords were discovered buried underneath an elementary school in Tokyo, Japan. Authorities ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the ... the Pacific theater to assist Japan. That plan was thwarted when ...

The German philosopher saint was canonized on Oct. 11, 1998, and proclaimed co-patron of Europe in 1999 by Pope John Paul II. Edith ... to help refugees during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf ... The following day, Japanese forces lost one of the world’s two biggest battleships, Musashi, to carrier planes of the U.S ...

The story begins in Amsterdam before the Nazi occupation and continues through the ... brother-sister duo that has to survive on its own in Kobe, Japan, during the final days of World War II and its ...

On this Friday, Feb. 21, it’s time to say Happy 100th Birthday to retired Navy veteran Felix Maurizio, who joined the Navy ...

For many countries in Western Europe, World War II and Axis occupation ... the course will show that defeat and occupation, collaboration and resistance, survival and compromise were some of the ...