The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display ...

Jake Larson, the World War II veteran and social media star known as “Papa Jake,” has died, his granddaughter posted on his ...

131 World War II vets die each day, on average; here is how their stories are being preserved. Ever since the last American veteran of WWI died in 2011, World War II has been the oldest conflict ...

Members of the Fort Bliss Army Garrison and the El Paso community celebrated the restoration of Rudolph Charles von Ripper’s ...

World War II took place from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy and Japan — and the Allies — mainly France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States. In many ...

Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...

As the US commemorates Pearl Harbor Day, here are the top 6 things that the National World War II Museum's chief historian would like Americans to know.

(These are the 18 biggest battles of World War II.) In the last seven months of the war, napalm firebombing resulted in the destruction of 67 Japanese cities – many made of just wood and paper.

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