Both men were staff sergeants during World War II, both were gunners on B-17s and both their planes were shot down on Feb. 22, 1944.

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

Posters for victory : the American home front and World War II : posters from the West Point Museum : [exhibition] 1 August 1978-31 October 1978, West Point Museum / essay and catalog notes by Michael ...

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s ...

Germany's Bundeswehr was founded on November 12, 1955. The decision was highly controversial, just 10 years after the end of World War II. Today, the Bundeswehr is expected to assume a leadership role ...

Eighty-four long years ago this Sunday, the world was forever changed. On that “day of infamy,” as revered former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt so boldly declared it, Japan launched a massive ...

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them,” Ray Bradbury once observed. His ...

Last week, a US national security strategy document signed by the president said European governments “hold unrealistic ...

It was an imperialist act because it divided part of European territory between two countries. From 1939 to 1941, the Soviet Union was an ally of Germany on the Eastern Front, supplying it with the ...

Germany’s Bundestag voted for a bill on Friday that allows the country to move towards conscription, as tensions with Russia spur calls for Europe to gain more independence from the US security ...

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...