A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

A Nazi captain gave artwork, which depicts an intimate Roman romance, to a civilian. When he died, his heirs decided to ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...

After Free Press inquiries about inconsistencies in a news release, the DOD acknowledged that Kenneth Kramer, who died as a World War II prisoner in the Phillippines, was not from Detroit, but ...

Sheboygan County residents went all out during the war effort for scrap materials to be recycled during wartime.

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum allows guests to sleep on the USS Cobia, a World War II submarine it lists on Airbnb.

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Kenneth Kramer, just 20 years old when he died, was from Washington state and appeared to have no connection to Michigan, officials said.