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

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

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 ...

Normally, smelling diesel fuel during an Airbnb stay would be cause for concern and possibly evacuation. One of the few ...

Fortunately, the precedent for this kind of transformation occurred more than 70 years ago, when American private industry mobilized to win World War II. At the dawn of the Progressive Era ...

Most Western movies about the participation of the USSR in the war against Nazi Germany contain many cliches and distortions of history. But, ...

Today on BBC Two there’s a couple starting with The Heroes of Telemark at 4:15pm. This British war film stars Kirk Douglas in ...

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 ...

A World War II re-enactment group visited the scene of the Battle on Dec. 16. The Furious 4th World War II Living History ...

Even though I grew up in Wisconsin, I had no idea of the extent of its maritime history. It's one thing to walk through a World War II submarine on a guided tour and imagine what life was like on ...