Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

By December 1944, when the 28th Infantry Division reached Wiltz, Santa Claus had been MIA for years. And then . . .

Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest ...

Rubbertown, a complex of heavy industrial sites in west Louisville, grew rapidly as a hub for synthetic rubber production ...

This attack was Adolf Hitler’s last attempt to turn World War II in his favor following the Allied D-Day invasion in June ...

Judy and Scott Gill of Prairie du Chien, Wis., made a special visit to Fort McCoy on Dec. 2 to deliver 26 vintage photos of Army activities around ...

When entertainer Bing Crosby stepped up to the microphone in New York’s NBC Studios on Christmas Day 1941, many of the tens ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

As Australia and England clash in The Ashes cricket series, Australian War Memorial historians have uncovered two diaries ...

Verdun is synonymous with 1916, but we are here for a different turning point - August 31, 1944, when the US 7th Armored Division liberated the town. Using Life Magazine photographer Ralph Morse’s ...

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left ...

A 470-kg World War II bomb was safely removed from a construction site in the wider central area of Belgrade. The US-made ...