(Photo: Yad Veshem)"We are all Jews here."Many non...  ...nce then 25,685 people from 49 nations around the world have received Israel's highest honor.For the firs...  ...German forces in late 1944. He was a prisoner of war for 100 days. During that time, prison camp guard...  ...t, saved the lives of Jews among...

Thomas E. Anderson was shipped off to Europe in 19...  ...943 to battle the Axis powers. His account of the war experience takes a sudden left turn in the middle...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...the Armed Forces.(Image credit: Aude)The National World War II Memorial started with a question, and proceeded w...  ...Hollywood. ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE (EVENTUALLY) World War II veterans -the people we now call the “Great...  ...t known for too...

During World War II , millions of Americans who had never travelled be...

(Photo: Associated Press)In 1943, US forces attacked and seized the island of Tarawa in what is now the Republic of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean. More than a thousand Americans died taking that island from the Japanese....

Filmmaker Torill Kove tells a wonderful story abou...  ...ut her grandmother's life and work in Oslo during World War II . Some parts of it are even true!Sharp and whimsic...

70 years ago today, the bloodiest, most destructiv...  ...years ago today, the bloodiest, most destructive war in all of human history ended.After the destructi...  ...ugust 15, 1945, that it would surrender. The free world responded with a jubilation known as V-J Day--Vic...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...ncle John's Canoramic Bathroom Reader.To help win World War II , the Allies used every skill they could come up w...  ...s to replenish supplies and troops for the desert war raging in North Africa. That made it a prime targ...  ...fer little information...

(Photo of the mother and daughter by the Internati...  ...the mother vanished into the chaos of the end of World War II . Bachmann asked the International Tracing Service...

(Image: Lucasfilm)Yes, that’s an image from...  ...the climactic trench run scene at the end of Star Wars . It’s not an error. That scene was inspired...  ...rror. That scene was inspired by the 1955 British war film The Dam Busters. That movie was a retelling...  ...nary raid conducted by the Royal...