When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most conversations.

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...

A New Mexico National Guard unit that lost half of its soldiers in the Philippines and Alaska Natives who endured the only Japanese occupation of U.S. soil in World War II may soon be honored with a ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany - The senior staff officers, noncommissioned officers and civilians of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command were not about to let the nippy winter weather ruin their staff ride ...

Japanese commanders entered Guadalcanal confident the U.S. Marines would break—but World War II had other plans. Follow ...

BASTOGNE, Belgium (AP) — Eighty years later, World War II veteran David Marshall, has a picture in his wallet of him fighting in the snow and bitter cold in one of the defining moments of the ...

MANKATO — Dennis Boldt sat in his West Mankato living room as he reflected on his trip last summer to Europe, where he was honored for his military service in World War II. Greeting crowds below while ...

Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in movies and TV shows. He looks at the bombing raids in "Masters of the Air," starring Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan. He describes ...

The removal by a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands of two displays recognizing Black troops who fought in World War ...