Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at ...

World War II-era map sparks treasure hunt in Dutch village January 24, 2023 by ALEKSANDAR FURTULA / Associated Press ...

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

COLOGNE, Germany — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the scars remain, allowing visitors to get up close and touch history.

World War II broke out just two decades after the Great War (1914 - 1918), as America was recovering from the Great ...

World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and secret protocols to it between the Soviet Union and the Third ...

Last week, President Trump announced plans to officially designate May 8, the date when the Germans signed the articles of surrender to end World War II in Europe, as “Victory Day.” He further ...

A 223-year-old Washington, DC estate that once served as the secret strategic base for a World War II general was recently listed for $4.75 million—only the third time it has been brought to ...

President Donald Trump late Thursday announced plans to designate May 8 as World War II “Victory Day” in the United States, which coincides with the “Victory in Europe Day” that has been ...

World War II-era map sparks treasure hunt for Nazi loot in Dutch village. Detail of a hand-drawn map purportedly showing where Nazi loot was buried in Ommeren, the Netherlands.

As World War II nears its end in 1945, the Netherlands' German occupiers were pushed back by Allied advances. The soldiers who had been in Arnhem found themselves in Ommeren and decided to bury ...