Eighty years after World War II, Gov. Jim Pillen created a medal to honor living veterans of the war. This week he visited ...

John Hilgert, director of the Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs, speaks at a medal ceremony honoring an Omaha World ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

One of the most inspiring anti-Nazi German heroes of World War 2 was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who vocally condemned Adolf Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of ...

When the Rangers won the 1940 Stanley Cup, World War 2 was underway but players didn't enlist until after the Cup triumph.

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 ...

At 2 p.m., our featured presenter will be Mary Ellen Johnson, Guilderland town historian, who will make a presentation on the varied activities of the Army depot in World War II. This is now the ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...

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 ...

The poignant film can be seen here. John Andreas Andersen’s ‘Number 24’ is based on the true story of World War II resistance fighter Gunnar Sønsteby. Codename ‘Number 24,’ he led an Oslo-based group ...

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Among the millions of World War II veterans were seven future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.