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 ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...

But once again, efforts flopped. Greenland’s importance took center stage during World War II. After Germany occupied Denmark in 1940, the U.S. moved to secure the island under its Monroe ...

The government has ordered offshore energy firms to avoid "noisy" detonations when disposing of unexploded bombs on the seabed, in a bid to protect vulnerable marine life. There are still more ...

An example of the students’ poetic and illustrated interpretation of the American military’s Solomon Islands campaign during World War II. Haiku reads: “Within the Context; Joint Force ...

Sunday’s delayed start to the truce was a minor problem compared with the difficult choices and American leverage needed to get both parties to the second phase, which could end the war. By ...

The student was identified as Cadet Daniel Bermudez, a member of the class of 2028, who attended Norwalk High School in Norwalk, Conn., according to Norwich University officials. Northfield ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, the Netherlands' largest war archive is going public. No longer classified, it contains the names of hundreds of thousands of people who were ...

A new species of predatory dinosaur that lived in North Africa 95 million years ago has been identified—some 80 years after the only specimen was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.