The year “1942’’ was written next to it. “History is repeating itself,” Mr. Shkalikov, a tank driver on leave from the Ukrainian army, said of the World War II-era carving.

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before ...

Imagine a world where Mussolini’s Italy had a competent military during World War II. In this alternate history, the Italian Army is effectively led, transforming Italy into a powerful Axis force.

Amid the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end comes the death of what is believed to be America’s last surviving ace, Don ...

Raley -- who joined the Army in 1935 before transferring to the Army Air Forces in 1943 -- loved being a tail gunner, so much so that escaping death did not dissuade him from returning to one of ...

A CRASH COURSE IN ARTICLE II. Among other things, the second Trump administration is giving the political world an education in the meaning of Article II ...

Numerous World War II memorials stand as solemn testaments to history, drawing visitors for education, reflection, and homage. Scattered across diverse terrains are various crash sites and plane ...

In fact, a balloon floating into U.S. airspace once caused fatal consequences: May 5 marks the 78th anniversary of a relatively unknown tragedy caused by balloon bombs at the tail end of World War ...

A 22-year-old soldier was one of eight American airmen who vanished during a 1944 crash when their plane went “spinning down into the sea” during World War II, federal officials said.

Three airmen who died during a World War II bombing raid have been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday. The mission was carried out with a B-25C "Mitchell ...

American soldiers and supplies arrive on the shore of the French coast of German-occupied Normandy during the Allied D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 in World War II. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops ...