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

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 ...

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 ...

The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot has died at the age of 105. John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, the “last of the few” ...

But by late 1941, the criteria had widened to include all women and "childless widows" up to 30 years old and men up to 51 ...

The United States and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are both vowing escalation after the U.S. launched airstrikes&nbs ...