Clonakilty, Ireland, is a town of less than 5,000...  ...stay, the US airmen were able to reciprocate the warm Irish welcome they had received by sharing their...

To promote the History Channel, photographer Seth Taras superimposed historic photographs with modern images taken at the same locations. At the link, you can see the crash of the Hindenburg, Hitler in Paris and the Berl...

This moving photo was taken on 24 June 1944, one week into the three week battle to capture the island of Saipan. The caption provided by the Marine Corps Archives reads:Navy Chaplain O. David Herrmann, of Omaha, Neb., a...

This photo from the Library and Archives of Canada...  ...standing there is a man named Harry Ball. He's a World War One veteran. He wasn't the chief of the Piapot re...

Photo: Bernard Hoffman - LIFE You...  ...e mass entry of women into the American war effort during World War II , but have you met Winnie the Welder (so...  ...2,000 women who worked in the shipyard building war ships and subs. LIFE photographe...

Park Place, Boardwalk, and a hidden map with a sec...  ...ith a secret escape route? For Allied POWs during World War II , Monopoly© games came equipped with real-lif...  ...th real-life "get out of jail free" cards. During World War II , the British secret service hatched a master plan...  ...rking space.G...

Calvin Graham was only 12 when he became a seaman...  ...ter the Pearl Harbor attack that drew the US into World War II . Graham was assigned to the USS South Dakota, whi...

Senator Daniel Inouye became a U.S. Representative...  ...of Honor. You can read a detailed account of his war exploits in colorful language at Badass of the We...

Army Air Corps pilot Emmett "Cyclone" Davis flew a...  ...in 1945. Davis, by then a lieutenant colonel, saw World War II in and out. Davis will be 94 years old next week....  ...facts: His father flew 220 combat missions during World War II , engaging the enemy in three dogfights. In his mi...  ..., significantl...

As we reflect on the significance of Pearl Harbor...  ...n more about one of the iconic artistic relics of World War II : the decorated leather bomber jacket. The Army Ai...  ...talked to people who, when they got back from the war , hung their jacket up in the closet because they...  ...read some individual sto...