Following the First World War three of the largest European Empires collapsed, with the German Empire being the last, after ...

In the fall of 1945, a bit more than six years after Nazi Germany invaded Poland and started the biggest and deadliest ...

Many Arkansans are familiar with Edward Payson Washbourne's 1856 painting called "The Arkansas Traveler." In succeeding years the name would be applied to a riverboat, a racehorse, a newspaper and a ...

James Calderone traded frozen ponds and frigid winters for long bus rides and a string of Sun Belt cities in his move from ...

Two Texas heroes were buried more than 80 years after they were killed in action on two of the most consequential dates in ...

On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Vultee Vice President of Production D. I. Caroll boasted that the plane manufacturer's Nashville division had increased productivity by two ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might.

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out ...

pt. 1. Prelude to war -- pt. 2. From the invasion to the Battle of Moscow -- pt. 3. The Leningrad story -- pt. 4. The black summer of 1942 -- pt. 5. Stalingrad -- pt. 6. Year of hard victories-the ...

This story is part of Mon Valley Sons of World War II, a series about our sons who lost their lives in service to our country ...

There’s quite a story to the banged-up, old bullet that a World War II nurse with strong ties to Lake and Sonoma counties just donated in person to the national museum at Pearl Harbor. And you can be ...

Edward D. Bowden was killed when Japanese torpedoes and bombs hit the USS California in the 1941 attack, according to the ...