The war in Europe began in September 1939 when Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland. Using Blitzkrieg tactics the ...

When efforts to negotiate a withdrawal fail, Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. Germany captures Paris, and France surrenders to the Nazis. Exacting revenge for his ...

Durwood “Bud” Buchheim, 101, of Sun Prairie, and John Storer, 97, of Maple Bluff, are among the estimated 100,000 or fewer ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War ...

What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

They used the conditions of World War II to set up a “natural experiment” that evaluated differences between people conceived ...

Higgins, who Schick described as a "flamboyant industrialist," was relatively new to building military hardware when World War II began, but he had a long record of entrepreneurship, innovation ...

Robert Doucet began his 25-year military career in 1945 while he was still in high school. On Monday, Doucet visited the St.

A holiday dedicated to those who fought in what had been known as “the war to end all wars” got a reevaluation after World ...

The film begins in 1943 at Camp Shelby in Mississippi ... from the onset of the United States’ involvement in World War II to its end. The movie features Kate Beckinsale ("Van Helsing ...

World War II begins. May: As Germany marches into Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, Winston Churchill replaces a disgraced Neville Chamberlain, the man responsible for the appeasement of ...