Britain launched one of the most daring and precision-focused air raids of World War II: the destruction of Germany's Ruhr Valley dams. Known as Operation Chastise, this extraordinary mission involved ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

Among his biographies is a title many will recognize: “Bear: The Legendary Life of Coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant”, released in ...

Introduced in the late 1930s, the Panzer III became the backbone of Germany’s armored forces during the early years of World War II. It was one of the first tanks to feature torsion-bar suspension and ...

“During World War II,” Chicoan David Bruhn writes, “German/Italian aircraft purposely bombed and sank thirteen Allied hospital ships in the European Theatre. A fourteenth hospital ship was ...

As rusting war-era ships decay on the seafloor, their toxic cargoes pose an urgent but often overlooked environmental risk.

When Benjamin Patterson stood at the grave of a 23-year-old World War II combat engineer from North Lawrence, he didn’t just see a name etched in white marble — he saw a life he had spent months ...

To boost troop morale and keep an eye on postwar reconstruction, the US Army requisitioned dozens of hotels across southern ...

A Caithness man has authored a new book on a clever ruse to fool German aircrews into bombing a decoy airfield at Sarclet.

There can be little doubt that Lewistown residents John Robert and Lillian M. Carr were thrilled by the birth of their son, ...

The country is scrambling to roll back a decision to decommission bunkers as military experts warn that Russia could be in a ...

Britain’s oldest World War II veteran, Donald Rose, has died at the age of 110. Rose participated in the D-Day landings on ...