In December 1944 during World War II, the German army launched a surprise offensive meant to change the course of the war.

In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...

The seven soldiers were kicked out of an ROTC program as World War II began. Last week, they were commissioned as Army ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Karin Kneissl also pointed to a directive issued by the chief of staff of the German Navy on September 29, 1941, outlining ...

Olympic fans may know that Cortina d’Ampezzo hosted the Winter Games once before, in 1956. Less well known is that 15 years ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

The Holocaust of the Greek Jews was the darkest episode of the Nazi occupation of the country, as over 59,000 Greek Jews were ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 survivors.

The Army has posthumously commissioned seven University of Hawaii ROTC cadets of Japanese descent who were killed during ...

Seven Japanese American soldiers have been promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony that comes eight decades after they died fighting for the U.S. during World War II ...

We hope you enjoyed this look back at the last 100 years of television in science. From the early days of physicists ...