Groups such as the Maquis - were men and women who avoided Vichy France’s forced labor by hiding in the mountains. They used ...

World War II saw the emergence of some groundbreaking jet fighters that revolutionized aerial warfare. The Messerschmitt Me ...

The United States Navy commissioned a new destroyer over the weekend in New York City, and it was named after legendary World ...

Jeremiah P. Mahoney had been missing in action since 1945. His remains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery in ...

When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a ...

During World War II, battles were won by the side that was first to spot enemy airplanes, ships, or submarines. To give the Allies an edge, British and American scientists developed radar ...

For nearly 80 years, the remains of Kansas City native Elvis Spotts, a Merchant Marine wiper during World War II, lay buried on a remote island in the South Pacific. Spotts, who served as a mechanic ...

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Marine John Kinsel Sr., one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II, has died. He was remembered Wednesday in a procession of more than 120 vehicles ...

Elvis Spotts, who served as a mechanic on the SS Cape Isabel, tragically lost his life on Feb. 22, 1944, when he was ...