The U.S. Air Force unit and its deadly missions in World War II are also the subject of a new Apple TV+ documentary.

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

CBS News' Edward R. Murrow was shocked by what he saw at the just-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Work continues to ensure the world never forgets.

A Missouri S&T history professor’s book about U.S. soldiers’ experience on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II played an instrumental role in the creation ...

Montgomery sat alongside Churchill and Eisenhower in this car as they plotted the liberation of Europe. Read about its ...

The French government is preparing to present Alan Kinder, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, with the Legion of Honor, the European country’s highest decoration.

Pfc. Edward B. Simons was killed in action on December 6, 1944 in Belgium. He was repatriated and reburied in Gratiot Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Gratiot, Lafayette County, Wisconsin in March of ...

With the war bringing new urgency to solving problems such as traumatic injuries or bacterial and viral infections, the US government created the Committee on Medical Research (CMR), a division of the ...

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

And now another aerial warrior has just joined the ranks of his comrades in Fighter Pilot’s Heaven: Lt. Col. (USAF, ret.) Ed ...

Frederick McDonald, who collected glass shards from bombed-out European cathedrals, synagogues and chapels during World War ...

Jacques Moalic, a 102-year-old former Agence France-Presse journalist, remembers vividly the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp by American troops 80 years ago.