WWII began and ended in Septembers set six years apart. From the German invasion of Poland to the Japanese surrender in Tokyo ...

In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt convinces a largely isolationist Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act, allowing the U.S.

We may only be halfway through the 2020s, but we've already had several incredible World War II movies, including Oppenheimer ...

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 ...

Today we are going to take a look at the three main battle rifles of World War Two - the M1 Garand, the SVT-40, and the Gewehr 43. We will also consider the SVT-38, Gewehr 41(W), and Gewehr 41(M). The ...

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 ...

Recently, I stood in an airfield in Sweetwater, Texas, and looked up. I was wondering what it would have been like to take off from there in a small plane, flying into the dust of West Texas and the ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it ...

It's safe to say pretty much everybody has heard of World War II, the world's deadliest conflict, responsible for about 60 million casualties. True to its name, the conflict touched pretty much every ...

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 ...