To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

During this exciting hunt for WW2 artifacts, we discover a very special officers pistol. It's a captured weapon from Belgium that was probably taken by a German officer as a souvenir. A remarkable ...

The film is based on the real life experience of the youngest pilot at the Battle of Britain, Geoffrey Wellum, and has been praised by viewers as a hidden gem ...

FORT BRAGG — Fort Bragg will undergo a name change later this year as part of a congressional mandate to remove items from Department of Defense property that commemorate the confederacy. But ...

Explore the world of the code breaker through BBC clips, and understand the importance of Bletchley Park during World War Two ...

Aside from the sheer scale of the devastation it wrought, World War II changed the face of the planet in countless ways. Geographically. Socially. Technologically. The countries involved engineered ...

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VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through ...

The general "led a life of adventure, fighting in almost every major American twentieth century conflict," the National World War II Museum notes. "He often led from the front, and he almost always ...

History will come alive at the Chalmette Battlefield on two Saturdays in the coming weeks as the national park stages living history demonstrations, recreating the scene as it was during the Battle of ...