The literal, physical fight to protect American bombers against the ravages of Nazi German Luftwaffe fighter planes, which saved the lives of many a B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator crewmembers ...

World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich.

Maj. Gen. Raymond Shields, the adjutant general of New York, welcomed a French diplomat to mark the 80th anniversary of ...

Price Day, former editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Sun, Evening Sun and Sunday Sun, witnessed the German surrender at Reims, ...

An erosion of the political and moral foundations established in 1945. Ironically, this revisionism - while often framed as a ...

This VE Day the landmark poppy exhibition has made a comeback to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, using flowers from the ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York—Major General Ray Shields, the adjutant general of New York, will mark the end of World War II in Europe as the New York State Military Museum holds a special program ...

PARIS—As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War II reflect on painful memories of fear, deprivation and persecution shaped by ...

The liberation of Europe, when it finally came, was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions of men and women. The thousands of troops who went ashore on June 6, 1944, were the tip of a ver ...

CLAW MARKS on trees in Northumberland are said to bear witness to the presence of one of the North-East’s most ... soldiers of the Second World War. There are statues of him in Sopot and Krakow ...