Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honored World War II veterans earlier this week. Pillen presented Clare Sward and Harold Cawley with ...

The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...

On the evening of March 24, 1945, Soldiers from the 87th Infantry Division of General George S. Patton's Third U.S. Army began ...

I stood in my Connecticutco classroom deciding how to respond to my students’ “lessons from WW2.”  After a long silence, I ...

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States has extended its “nuclear umbrella” over its closest allies. This nuclear umbrella, also referred to as an “extended deterrent,” means that the U.S ...

When her number was called, a teenaged Helga Melmed's head was shaved and stripped naked before the Auschwitz guards.

Two sisters, who are 101 and 103 years old, were honored by Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Monday for their work at the World War II bomber plant where the ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

All times are Eastern. Saturday, March 15 —2:16 a.m.: Two legal advocacy groups, the ACLU and Democracy Forward, sue on behalf of five Venezuelans held in immigration detention who fear they ...

A 40-year-old king penguin who starred in Batman Returns is seeking the title of 'world's favourite flightless bird.' Seth, the world's oldest known king penguin, has resided at Birdland in ...

Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history buffs. British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex ...

Canada is slightly larger than America. That would mean that the “cherished 51st state,” as Trump calls it, would be lopsided ...