In January 1942, soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it was announced that an army training facility would be built in the Three Forks area. The Cookson Hills would ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Under her leadership, a battalion of Black women nicknamed the Six Triple Eight (for the 6888th) sorted and sent the mail in three months — about half the time one general predicted. Their story ...

The cache from Vilnius Cathedral, in Lithuania, has not been seen since the outbreak of World War II in 1939, according to a press release from Go Vilnius tourism promotion agency on Wednesday.

The remains of a Marine killed in World War II were identified and are scheduled ... likely from intense artillery and machine-gun fire while the amphibious assault was ongoing.

The gold crowns, rings and other accessories have been missing since 1939, when they were hidden at the start of World War II. A team of experts found the objects on Dec. 16 while using an ...

What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf”) Wight, author and the real James Herriot? MASTERPIECE got the fascinating facts and sometimes surprising timeline from All ...