It was the "spirit of the day" that drew Bill Purdy to the air force during World War II. The now-centenarian still remembers being called up as a Lancaster bomber pilot in 1942. "The war had been ...

NOAA Ocean Exploration video screengrab A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully armed with an 83-year-old bomb fixed to the wing ...

It seems fighter planes and bombers weren't the only vehicles aboard a famous U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II. A crew exploring the USS Yorktown at the bottom of the ...

Today, April 22, is a historic day. On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler admitted that World War II was lost. By now, Hitler was in his infamous bunker and Soviet troops were marching on Berlin. In 1915, ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — It’s been more than eight decades since Sgt. R.L. Tyler was declared missing in action during World War II. Now, thanks to advances in DNA technology and the unwavering ...

A former CIA agent believes there is growing evidence that Adolf Hitler faked his own death and escaped to Argentina, where "followers tried to reboot his fallen Nazi empire," the UK-based Daily ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants YOU—to help identify a car that evidently sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean with the USS Yorktown in 1942. A NOAA-led team spotted ...

HAMILTON CITY, Calif. - The remains of Army Pvt. James Stanley Mitchell will be returned home 82 years after his death during World War II. The procession will start early Tuesday morning in Chico as ...

Today, food historian David Burton writes about his father, Fred, who returned from World War II Egypt with a taste for new foods to become one of Nelson’s leading caterers. As students in the ...

Eight decades ago, U.S. Army soldiers raised the American flag in the center of Nuremberg. They stood atop a bunker adorned with Nazi symbols, now in the hands of Allied forces after five days of ...

The drama offers a deep exploration of what Australian prisoners of war went through during World War II. The show’s storytelling moves back and forth through three different stages of time: before ...