New World War 2 film tells the incredible previously untold true story of the first Nazi death camp escape to alert the world ...

Gwathmey said his role in NPR's programming department "felt like being the desk sergeant in a police precinct." ...

During World War II, this small, West Central Nebraska town was famous for the North Platte Canteen. In 1941, a few local ...

In 1938, the director of the Signal Corps Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Col. Roger B. Colton, transformed ...

Dressed in a period civilian flight instructor uniform, Chuck Workman of Lakewood, California, at right, watches a B-25 ...

In 1941, the Department of National Defence (DND) expropriated almost 2,600 square kilometres of land in southeastern Alberta ...

French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...

GIVEN the nature of warfare in urban environments and the limitations of past technologies, it is regrettably inevitable that ...

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

Last invoked in 1941, the Alien Enemies Act provided the legal basis for the arrest and detention of thousands of Japanese ...

Nazis staying at Greenbrier during WWII were treated like aristocratic guests. They even threw a birthday party for Hitler there.

When World War II started, Africa was (save for certain exceptions) a tapestry of colonies. A third of the continent’s ...