The National Archive of Australia has digitised over a million service records from World War II, many of which haven't been seen for 80 years.

The Canadian government of Justin Trudeau has been ridiculed for hiding what has up until now been a secret list of alleged ...

On Nov. 13, 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It has since become ...

At a San Francisco ceremony, Millie Cervantes will accept the Congressional Gold Medal for her grandfather, who died in ...

Crosley-produced proximity fuses were the first deployed to enemy lines and responsible for the first kill of an enemy aircraft. The world's first smart bomb, produced here in Cincinnati, turned the ...

Such hometown magazines served as a sort of collective family letter to far-flung troops yearning to get back home.

The state of Illinois has returned a Purple Heart medal to the daughter of a Marine who was wounded in the invasion of Saipan ...

A historian has discovered details of the largest successful prisoner escape of the Second World War - in a breakout bigger ...

It was the largest successful prisoner escape of the Second World War - taking place just six weeks after the more famous ...

A national ceremony in Belgium on Friday recognized the roughly 4,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit soldiers from Canada who ...

Author Vinay Gupta’s book ‘A Rescue in Vienna: The Story of an Unlikely’ is the journey to uncover the truth about his grandfather’s heroic actions during World War II is a fascinating one. Gupta’s ...