Files show Argentina's bungled hunt for Hitler's henchman Martin Bormann, marked by mistaken arrests and bureaucratic ...

During World War II, Sweden was officially neutral, but life at home was anything but untouched by the conflict. A new study ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin ...

Between 1943 and 1946, more than 425,000 German prisoners of war lived and worked across the United States. They arrived ...

A gimlet-eyed and honest accounting of the war’s hidden costs that still affect us today. Ad Policy Recently discharged Marine Faris Touhy recreates an image of him drinking a cup of coffee after two ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

World War II was nearing its end in March 1945 when Russell Sattazahn found himself taking cover from enemy fire with other GIs in the basement of a German house. At first they felt protected, but the ...

Friends of the National World War II Memorial and the National Park Service on Tuesday co-hosted a Veterans Day observance at the memorial, honoring the 16 million American men and women who served in ...

Some 1.25 million Pennsylvanians fought in World War II, and more than 33,000 died in the world's deadliest conflict. However, the number of World War II veterans — the "Greatest Generation" as coined ...

After 83 years, John Pagliuso is finally getting the funeral he deserves. Pagliuso, killed in action serving in the Army during World War II, will receive a burial with full military honors on Nov. 7 ...