World War II

Neither the United States nor Germany would end up completing an atomic bomb while the war in Europe raged, but the Allies...

Women have blazed a trail of innovation and made military history. They have been fighting and sacrificing for this country...

The Seabees were created during World War II, because the Navy needed construction workers who could fight back.

Leap Day has a long history -- it's not something we all just arbitrarily decided to do one day.

Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal spent his life proving his now-famous photo wasn't staged.

Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also...

From D-Day to the crossing of the Rhine, the Army's top-secret 23rd Headquarters Special Troops unit used inflatable tanks...

While France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, the heroic role of Missak Manouchian's Resistance fighters in...

A team of researchers spent more than three years reaching out to camp survivors and their relatives.

For this four-phase plan to work, all four steps would have to begin simultaneously -- no small feat for an operation that...