The 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army activated for service prior to U.S. entry in World War II in August of 1940 at ...

The Bielski Partisans waged plenty of combat action against the Nazi scourge, much to the chagrin of the oppressors. January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to commemorate that ...

Harold "Bud" Pressel was awarded the Purple Heart he earned in 1944 when his bomber was shot down over Germany and he was taken prisoner.

The Nazis’ hateful language was not limited to Europe. Fritz Kuhn, a German Nazi activist, served in the late 1930s and early 1940s as leader of the German American Bund, an organization of ethnic ...

Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British ...

This year has been marked by numerous World War II-related “80th Anniversary” celebrations, keyed to 1944 as the penultimate ...

A medal awarded to Tommy the pigeon, one of the brave birds which inspired the 2005 animation film Valiant, has gone on sale ...

Hidden Spies of World War II” is a collection of vignettes of 52 courageous women, most of whom spied for the Allies in ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

A MEDAL awarded to a hero pigeon in World War Two is set to sell for £10,000 at auction. Tommy was supposed to be racing from ...

The American Legion Post 14 in Kingman will celebrate Four Chaplains Day by sharing the story of the men for whom the day is ...

Captain Leslie Scott's collection of Special Allied Airborne Reconnaissance Force (SAARF) wings are among the most scarce Allied airborne insignia of the Second World War ...