The following day, New Year’s Day 1945, Hartzell battled Nazi soldiers for control of the Belgian town of Chenogne. In the ...

Holocaust books are among those caught up in an Iowa book ban law. Meanwhile, schools are now required to teach about the ...

A World War II reenactment group visited the scene of the Battle of the Bulge on Dec. 16. The Furious 4th World War II Living ...

A sailor in Hawaii and a soldier in the Phillippines were the first and last Medal of Honor recipients of World War II.

Friedrich St. Florian came to the United States for his master's degree in architecture from Columbia University.

A new movie about the unit, "The Six Triple Eight," is in limited release in theaters but will stream on Netflix starting Dec ...

Monday marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. See photos from what Churchill called "the greatest American ...

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum is home to the USS "Cobia," a 312-foot-long vessel that completed six war patrols during World War II Sarah Kuta Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago ...

Eleven years after the establishment of the Jamestown Colony in 1607, Virginia Gov. Sir George Yeardley was ordered by the Virginia Company of London to set aside land on the mainland — hence Governor ...

Today’s spies have all the high-tech gadgets available today, but do they have the OG of all spy weapons: the OSS crossbow?

The dropping of the ball in Times Square to ring in the New Year is an annual tradition watched all over the world. But did you know that the Times Square ball did not drop two years in its history?

Kerry Washington plays Lt. Col. Charity Adams, the real-life commander of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, in ...