William McMillan of Casper turned 103 on Dec. 19 and is one of America’s few remaining living World War II veterans. He also ...

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

In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day.

In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914, the guns briefly fell silent. On the 100th ...

Christmas is traditionally intended to be a time of peace and celebration—but most recent wars have continued unabated during the holiday season.

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

Much of what defines modern warfare was born during World War II. From combined arms operations to strategic bombing and ...

In WWII, the 75mm tank gun became the gold standard for destroying enemy armor. But between the German KwK 40, the American M3, and the British QF 75mm, each country developed a different approach.

The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...

For the Union Army during the American Civil War, its officers and cavalry troopers relied on one of Colt's most notable ...

US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval ...