Don Halverson stays connected with his fellow service members, sometimes sharing a meal at his VFW club. Though these days he ...

Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned 96 this June; Senator Bob Dole, a veteran of the Italian campaign in 1945, died four years ago. But the ...

A luxury ocean liner burned and capsized in New York Harbor on Feb. 9, 1942. The SS Normandie, being converted into a troopship, caught fire during welding work and took 6,000 tons of water from ...

Often derided by their enemies and patronised by their major ally, the armed forces of Italy during the second world war have not been given the subsequent level of historical attention they deserve.