I have a photo of my father, sitting on a log on a beach somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II. Herman Kogan was ...

It has been 82 years since Staff Sgt. Nicholas J. Governale crashed into the sea off the coast of Guadalcanal. Now, the ...

From Hemingway to Pyle, discover the brave journalists who covered WWII in Keith Warren Lloyd's new book, plus other literary ...

The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...

For the first half of the 20th century, one of the most important firearms in the U.S. military arsenal was the water-cooled ...

Japanese commanders entered Guadalcanal confident the U.S. Marines would break—but World War II had other plans. Follow ...

Lake Superior Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force is rebuilding a PBY Catalina, an unsung hero of World War II.

Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest Generation are still alive. But when Schrenk, 102, and Bukowski, 101, met ...

In the winter of World War II, Germany unleashed its most powerful tanks in a final attempt to break the Allied advance. Led by elite Waffen-SS units and commanders like Joachim Peiper, the offensive ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...