During World War II, a German military captain acquired a stolen erotic mosaic while stationed in Italy. The ancient artwork ...

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

Kenneth L. Kramer, 20, a private in the United States Army Air Force, was accounted for on June 30, according to the Defense ...

An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...

The remains of an Army private from Detroit who died as a World War II prisoner of war in the Philippines have been ...

A California mother and son were lost deep in the woods. Then rescuers found a note that said ‘help' Simon Cowell Has the Best Reaction to a Former 'American Idol' Contestant's 'AGT' Audition Newly ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

Kenneth Kramer, just 20 years old when he died, was from Washington state and appeared to have no connection to Michigan, officials said.

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...