This dramatic moment marked the beginning of nearly 3,000 Luftwaffe aircraft lost over Great Britain during World War II and signaled the arrival of the Battle of Britain. Through on-location filming, ...

ALEXANDRIA — More than 2,300 Douglas County men and women were inducted into the military after the beginning of World War II ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

CAMDEN — Working through a below-freezing wind chill, weeks of rain and manual labor might seem like a lot of work to recover an ounce of lead from the ground. But for the team of veterans digging up ...

Among the sites visited as a U.S. PBY Coronado seaplane sunk in 80 feet of water outside Saipan’s barrier reef, officials said. It was known to only a few local divers and had never been ...

For the second year in a row, the Monocacy National Battlefield held an International Archeology Day to educate the community about the history of the battlefield and surrounding areas. Attendees on ...

In June 1942, the Japanese invaded Kiska, a nearly uninhabited island in Alaska’s Aleutian chain, some 1,450 miles west of Anchorage. Despite orders from the War Department to “Get Kiska back,” it ...

KWAJALEIN ATOLL, MARSHALL ISLANDS—The Shawnee News-Star reports that remnants of a World War II battle have been uncovered on an atoll in the Marshall Islands by archaeologist Matt Griffin during an ...