PARIS (AP) — D-Day veteran ″Papa Jake″ Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy’s bluffs in 1944 and then garnered 1.2 ...

Central to the UDHR in Article 13 (b): “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his ...

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

Berlin's Final Battle delves into the dramatic and brutal final days of the Third Reich as Soviet forces closed in on the German capital. Witnessing the intense street-to-street fighting, Waffen SS ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

The Second World War, also known as World War II, was the most devastating conflict in human history, altering the course of nations and the lives of millions. In this video, we explore what the ...

In World War II, the Naval Academy Class of 1940 lost 76 graduates. Seven of them were aboard the Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941.

Three U.S. World War II bombs found in Cologne defused after prompting the evacuation of 20,000 residents and the closure of hospitals, businesses and transportation routes.

A group of roughly two dozen veterans from World War II have traveled from Atlanta to Normandy, France for D-Day remembrances.