The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

"In combat, they would just charge forward from the tree line, like in a World War II movie," Ihorovych recalled. Assaults during World War II often had high casualty rates. He said his troops ...

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

The Latest Historic images from 80 years ago show the unprecedented scale of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, changing the course of World War II. World War II was America’s ...

WARSAW, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Poland on Tuesday hailed progress in resolving a historical dispute with Ukraine and said Warsaw would work to speed its neighbour's progress towards the European Union ...

What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf”) Wight, author and the real James Herriot? MASTERPIECE got the fascinating facts and sometimes surprising timeline from All ...

Archaeologists have only recently unearthed a derelict 'horror bunker' containing evidence of the most heinous crimes committed during World War II following unconfirmed reports about a ...

One was a typist, another wrote children’s books, a third had worked in a department store, yet this disparate band of women became Winston Churchill’s most secret army of wartime spies.

If you’re looking for a Netflix movie that charts a World War II hero's struggles, triumphs and traumas, then “Number 24” deserves to be in your watchlist. Here’s why this new wartime ...

Scrub back and forth below to see a Battle of Britain dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for women? documentWW2: Did the war change life for women? When WW2 broke out, the women of ...

Russia said that discussions with Washington were underway regarding potential peace talks to end the war nearly three years after Moscow’s full-scale invasion. By Paul Sonne Reporting from ...

Conceptually, it never changes, whether you’re fighting in WW2 or you’ve taken to a future battlefield in, well, Battlefield. We’ve chosen some highlights from top-quality war games on PC ...