World War II

The Navy's tradition of flying battle flags is as old as America itself. Here's an (incomplete) guide to the service's best...

A Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II is being honored...

Money. Weapons. The power to make enemies disappear. Dictators seem to have it all. Some of them even take all three of those...

About 11,500 Allied troops died in the nine days of Operation Market Garden, more than than during the D-Day landings in...

For the rest of his life, the Blue Angel pilots who came after him viewed Voris with reverence -- and with good reason.

Here are five films and TV shows that explore the origins, impact and aftermath of the allies’ September 1944 strategic...

The crash, which caused about $1 million in damage (roughly $17.5 million in 2024), represented the first time that an...

In the rolling hills of the southern Netherlands, locals have vowed to never forget the American and other Allied soldiers...

U.S. airmen in England assisted with an archaeological dig aimed at finding the remains of an Army pilot lost there during...

On Tuesday, 80 years after his death in a prisoner of war camp, the U.S. Navy posthumously awarded Knox a Purple Heart and a...