About a year ago, a man in Mesa, Ariz., emailed The Washington Post saying he had hundreds of letters written by a single family during World War II. When reporter Dan Lamothe began reading them, he ...

John Frank Rozar, a graduate of Colorado Springs High School (now Palmer High School) who went on to join the Navy, was one of more than 2,400 American service members killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, ...

The good news for 1942 was that mobilization exceeded all expectations. Cooperation and patriotism swept the country. In the Detroit suburbs, Ford and Hudson turned from cars and trucks to bombers.

BALTIMORE (WHTM) — In 1941, World War II was in its third year. Everyone knew it was only a matter of time before the United States would join the fight. Already, the country was shipping vast amounts ...

Imperial Japan launched a devastating Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. Navy and other military assets at Pearl Harbor, rousing a "sleeping giant" and thrusting an enraged America into World ...

Few people connect “Operation Overlord” with June 6, 1944. In America, the date is remembered as “D-Day,” when allied troops at long last stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from Adolf ...

Trick-or-treaters during World War II faced a grave threat to their Halloween fun. But like the rest of the country, they ...

People look at Soviet World War II weapons and take pictures at an exhibit about a 1941 military parade on Red Square whose ...

Former Ukraine correspondent for the Economist and Daily Telegraph, Reid brings to this narrative a comprehensive background in Russian affairs, an eye for the telling anecdote, and an approach that ...

On December 7, 1941, the joy of the Christmas season in Tallahassee was shattered when Japanese aircraft attacked U.S. military bases in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and, over the next few hours, also ...

In October 1941, the city of Odessa witnessed one of the most brutal and overlooked atrocities of World War II. Thousands of Jews and civilians were massacred under Romanian and German occupation in ...