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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Rogers High School is opening its doors to the public for a special World War II poster exhibit. The event is scheduled for this evening from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., offering a ...

The first thing I knew was…dust started to fall on me. The floor gave way…and I immediately realised what was happening. The roof came down…I covered my head with my hands…and wondered ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin makes 'opening gambit' ahead of peace talks A senior Russian politician has said Moscow is yet to receive a good offer to start peace negotiations - but it ...

Feb. 3 (UPI) --An Arizona film festival's display of more than 1,300 movie posters broke a Guinness World Record. The Chandler Film Festival's wall of posters at the Look Dine-in Cinema was ...

The war of words continues as both parties release new poster attacks, with the focus now on the fake voter allegations. AAP vs BJP: Poster War Escalates Ahead of Delhi Elections arrow-down ...

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 ...