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

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

Usually when we think of World War 2, images of allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy during the invasion of Europe come to mind.

World War II Pfc. Roland L. Bragg was born in Sabattus lived in Maine until his 1999 death. He replaces the fort's original ...

Fighter jets, tanks, and *mules* in WWII? All Creatures Great and Small's official production historian explains.

A member of Russian State Duma’s Defense Committee cited World War II precedents, saying that field artillery was once ...

I am proud of her for wanting to do that. Back then being an African American and a woman in the military, they looked down ...

Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev only met in person at the Sundance premiere of the Ukraine war documentary.

The greatest World War II movies ever capture one of the most devastating conflicts in history in historically accurate and ...

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque reinvented a genre.

Unfamiliar terrain, outdated equipment and poor tactics have likely felled thousands of soldiers, but more may return with ...