May 8 was the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day commemorating Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of ...

During World War II, thousands of Jews evaded the Nazis in Berlin, moving from place to place and taking refuge wherever they could. One of them, Walter Frankenstein, died in April at age 100.

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, and All Quiet on the Western Front are all among the most important war movies that ...

In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose ... The 62-man crew of the Eagle ...

Despite the crew’s vigilance, they did not detect U-578, a German submarine that had already ... shores so close to the location where World War II vividly and frighteningly came to the American ...

City officials in Cape May have advanced a plan for a beachfront memorial to recognize a World War II tragedy that occurred ... sailors who died when a German submarine attacked their destroyer ...

During World War II, naval warfare reached ... involves the HMS Defender, a British submarine reportedly attacked by a giant squid in the Strait of Malacca near the Indian Ocean in 1940. According to ...

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

Joining up at the start of the war, London-born Mr Barnes went on to serve for 23 years and said sinking a German U-boat was his biggest ... years since the end of WW2, Mr Barnes, who moved ...