Between 1941 and 1942, Germany’s fortunes in World War II began to shift. In this video, we trace the turning points that ...

In November 1941, HMAS Sydney encountered the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran off the coast of Western Australia. What followed was a close-range naval engagement that left Kormoran crippled — and ...

The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...

After the Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1941 San Jose State football team stayed in Hawaii to provide security and join ...

On 1865, America abolished slavery, as it adopted the 13th Amendment into the constitution. The decision came 246 years after ...

Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one ...

It is being replaced with an £11m new bridge, which will stretch over a mainline railway between Bristol and Taunton, and is ...

But the festive headlines were wiped clean on Dec. 7, when a surprise attack by the Empire of Japan’s air fleet struck the United States Pacific Fleet at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Oahu, Hawaii.

Botsford has been president of the foundation for 25 years and the land manager for its agricultural land holdings for 20 ...

The crew of the battleship now anchored in Wilmington spent Christmas 1943 in the South Pacific, where they enjoyed a surprise from home ...

In France, between 1941 and 1945, around 200,000 children are estimated to have been born from a union between a French woman ...