Submarines were key for Allied and Axis forces throughout World War II. At the war's onset, Germany's fleet of U-boat submarines created a distinct advantage for the Nazi's Kriegsmarine.According to ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...

In this Cold War-era documentary, we examine the root causes of the First Arab-Israeli War of 1948. From the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust to the UN’s decision to partition Palestine and ...

PARIS (AP) — The disposal of what Paris police called an “excessively dangerous” unexploded World War II bomb caused hours of transportation chaos Friday on rail and road networks in the French ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

On August 14, 1945, the Allied Powers accepted Imperial Japan’s unconditional surrender in World War II, delivering a hard-fought American victory in the Pacific and bringing the deadliest war in ...

London (CNN) — The blaze that killed 72 people in Grenfell Tower in London was caused by “decades of failure” by the UK government and the construction industry that allowed the 24-storey building to ...