Olympic fans may know that Cortina d'Ampezzo hosted the Winter Games in 1956, but less well known is an event that was held ...

In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the ...

Reflecting on America's history of liberation and the question of its current global image, this article explores the complexities of US involvement in foreign conflicts.

Across sleepy and remote islands in the Pacific, U.S. military engineers are working around the clock to revive strategically important airstrips that American troops first built under fire over 70 ...

Jewish Normandy veteran Mervyn Kersh was proud to serve his country but lamented that the modern United Kingdom is ultimately worse than the one he fought for. Kersh, who turned 101 in 2025, arrived ...

A centenarian has shared his precious memories of Christmas 1945. Dubbed "Victory Christmas", it was the first time Britain had celebrated a peacetime festive period after six long years of brutal war ...

The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II. The U.S. Navy will buy two new “battleships” as part of ...