At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

Walking through New Orleans’s National WW II Museum, you could be forgiven for thinking the Axis powers were defeated ...

Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather, you'll want to dress in layers (no matter the time of your visit) and bring rain gear, according to past visitors. World War II's successful Operation ...

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach. Most of these lost their lives during ... cemetery's website. World War II's ...

Many pivotal developments in the course of history did not start in palace halls or parliaments, but rather on battlefields where soldiers and warriors faced deadly opposition and risked their lives ...

Some Canadians have begun boycotting American products and booing the U.S. national anthem at professional sporting events in ...

The 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army activated for service prior to U.S. entry in World War II in August of 1940 at ...

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship ...

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 ... “most major loss” during the war.

During the panic of the disaster, the four chaplains organized evacuees, distributed life jackets from storage, and tended to ...