The Belgian troopship SS Léopoldville had just slipped beneath the English Channel after being hit by a torpedo. Gerald Howard went down with the ship. The 23-year-old rifleman nearly drowned under ...

Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentration camps when they were newly pregnant.

Newark Advocate veterans columnist Doug Stout explores the story of Warren E. Sams, a Licking County soldier killed in action ...

More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in two Arizona camps in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

There have been so many World War II movies made over the years, but only a few perfect ones, including classics like The ...

BY WAR’S END, the pipes had delivered roughly 206 million gallons—enough to fuel about 14 million jeeps for 300 miles each, ...

Tudor Close in Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, purportedly inspired the mansion in the board game Clue, or Cluedo.

A detailed narrative of the catastrophic March–April 1944 retreat of the 9th Company, SS Panzer Regiment 3. Follow the Tigers ...

Amid dense jungles, razor-sharp grass, leeches, and relentless monsoon rains, British defenders at Kohima fought fierce ...

During WWII, every American business was forced to make sacrifices and accommodations to support the war effort. Levi’s adapted to wartime rationing, imposed by the American government, by simplifying ...

To play this audio you need to enable JavaScript. Hello. Welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too. I'm Feifei, and I'm ...