After the bombing, charred corpses were piled in the city center for cremation— but not without counting themImage: akg-images/picture alliance Even 80 years after the bombing of Dresden in World War ...

Photos donated to a Hungarian archive reveal the devastating aftermath of the siege of Budapest, which ended 80 years ago.

The Soviet government highly valued the military successes achieved during the Budapest operation. By decree on June 9, 1945, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (national legislature) of the USSR ...

Victor Klemperer was an eyewitness to the Dresden bombings at the end of World War II, on February 13 and 14, 1945. The renowned scholar wrote what became known as the most vivid description of the ...

President Donald Trump has just started his second term, the last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he’s already started making quips about serving a third one. Over the ...

Raleigh has been riding a population boom for years, and along with that is a construction craze that's among the most active ...

This article contains spoilers about events related to the limited series Masters of the Air.As the U.S. Eighth Air Force’s ...

The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...

AUSTIN BOUCHER / U.S. ARMY / OCT. 7 Members of the Defense POW /MIA Accounting Agency walk beside a casket during a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. At least 163 ...

On May 3, 1945, during its second war patrol, Lagarto was lost with all 80 crew members aboard. This year marks the 80th ...

The Great Papago Escape was the largest Axis prisoner-of-war escape to occur from an American facility during World War II. On the night of December 23, 1944, twenty-five Germans tunneled out of Camp ...

The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net ...