Over a million Africans who were called to service by colonial powers took part in the war Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

Dennis Boldt sat in his West Mankato living room as he reflected on his trip last summer to Europe, where he was honored for ...

The annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is in full swing, and this year’s showcase includes a lineup of compelling movies with the theme of Holocaust and war stories. The festival, now ...

Andrew Biggio never met his great-uncle, but he’s gotten to know him well. “My uncle was killed in World War II — I’m named after him,” Biggio said. “He didn’t make it home from his war, and I did. I ...

That included students and victims of mass suicides ordered by the Japanese military ... skulls still wearing helmets. Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war ...

Led into Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Cemetery on Thursday was the hearse of World ... War II Navy veteran Robert Morgan. It entered to the sound of “Amazing Grace” and was escorted by retired ...

John B. Goodenough, a former soldier, was awarded the Nobel Prize for helping create the lithium-ion battery, used today in a ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...

During World War II, Beard served as a switchboard operator stationed in the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Outside of his military service, he worked as a self-employed carpenter and once built a ...

Takamatsu Gushiken, a "gamafuya," an Okinawa dialect meaning a person who digs in a cave, searches in a cave for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the ...

A U.S. pilot who was long considered missing in action after a failed World War II mission has been found. U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson of Wichita, Kansas, died in March 1944 ...