An in-depth look at Winston Churchill’s controversial decision to allow America’s segregated army into the U.K. during World ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

Discover how the U.S. Ghost Army used inflatable tanks and sound to save 30,000 lives in WWII. A technical look at the 23rd ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately, the most crucial consequence of surrender at Dunkirk would have been not manpower and morale, but timing. Between June 1940 and the second half... Here’s ...

For Valentine's Day, Military Times delved into love letters that helped U.S. troops and their families through the dark days ...

The Second World War has been described as the greatest human catastrophe of all time. The scope of destruction and lives lost have never been accurately measured, nor do scholars agree on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: RIA Novosti - CC-BY-SA 3.0/Wiki Commons. World War II wasn’t just fought by men and women on the front lines, it was ...

The U.S. national debt is set to break a World War II record by 2030, reaching 108% of GDP as the Congressional Budget Office warns of mounting fiscal challenges ahead.

Ret. Army Master Sgt. Ed Beck made it through three wars and nearly died in a German POW camp to still be present, sharing ...

In June 1942, during World War II, the Battle of Midway transformed the Pacific War in a matter of minutes. Japan’s elite carrier force—Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu—was destroyed despite months of ...

In the movie The History Boys, based on Alan Bennett’s play, a student wins a scholarship to Oxford with the help of an argument he makes on an entrance exam: Hitler, he claims, was “much ...

World War II, which concluded 80 years ago, was a historic event that defined a generation. Tens of millions of people fought brutal oppression and an unfathomable Holocaust. Today, the world ...