The D-Day invasion marked the start of the Battle of Normandy during World War II. The date of the invasion was June 6, 1944, ...

The British Supermarine Spitfire is perhaps one of the most recognizable military vehicles of World War II.

A team from the Museum of London Archaeology recently unearthed the lost remains of an experimental catapult last seen more ...

Battle of Stalingrad, (July 17, 1942–February 2, 1943), successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Russia, U.S.S.R., during World War II. Russians consider it to be one of ...

Roosevelt at the height of World War II The Lost Memoir of a Hiroshima Survivor Was Rediscovered. Now, It Will Be Published ...

Long before he was dueling Darth Vader in Star Wars, Sir Alec Guinness starred in this tour de force WWII film as Colonel Nicholson, a British POW who, with his unit, is tasked with building a railway ...

World War 2 had some truly odd spy equipment. This was long before tiny digital cameras, GPS trackers, and modern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bone hunter Takamatsu Gushiken looks for World War II-era remains in a cave on Okinawa. - Brad Lendon/CNN The “bone digger” slides ...

What if just a handful of battles truly determined the outcome of World War II? While the war stretched across years and continents, a select group of engagements had an outsized impact, shifting ...

As Imperial Japanese soldiers scour the streets, a group of civilians in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing seek refuge in a small photography studio. Developing photographs taken throughout the city ...

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...