When the U.S. entered World War II, industrial leaders in the Louisville area pivoted to building cargo planes, massive ships and in one particular site, the synthetic rubber for vehicle tires and ...

BERLIN—A dozen senior German officers convened at a triangle-shaped military compound in Berlin about 2½ years ago to work on a secret plan for a war with Russia. Now they’re racing to implement it.

Time is running out for the last living U.S. veterans of World War II. At 102 years old — “103 next month,” he said with a grin — Robert Heiss spends his afternoons playing cribbage and devouring ...

Raphael Morris has never been to his uncle's final resting place, the U.S. military's only cemetery in the Netherlands—although a trans-Atlantic trip is on his bucket list. To go and see where U.S.

Mr. Darman, a journalist and historian, is the author of “Becoming FDR.” Eighty-one years ago this week, men from the advancing U.S. Army stood in a rain-soaked farm field in Margraten, the ...

Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Approximately 1 million African American ...

In 1984, President Reagan commemorated the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, and paid tribute to the World War II soldiers known as "The Greatest Generation." "These are champions who ...

Some 1.25 million Pennsylvanians fought in World War II, and more than 33,000 died in the world's deadliest conflict. However, the number of World War II veterans — the "Greatest Generation" as coined ...

After 83 years, John Pagliuso is finally getting the funeral he deserves. Pagliuso, killed in action serving in the Army during World War II, will receive a burial with full military honors on Nov. 7 ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --Rami Malek and Russell Crowe star in the new World War II film Nuremberg, about a psychiatrist tasked with evaluating Nazi leader Herman Göring to determine if he's fit to stand trial ...

Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) did not lower in-hospital deaths among patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. At 90 days, 27.9% of patients who underwent SDD died before ...