A U.S. military base constructed and used during World War II on Baltra Island, part of the Galapagos Islands, was largely dismantled after the war. A group of researchers created a 3D digital ...

In the spring of 1943, the newly commissioned Capt. Glenn Miller was stationed in New Haven, Conn., where he was assembling what would become his last great band, the Army Air Forces Training Command ...

Prime Video’s hit WWII movie dominating global charts just made unprecedented streaming history. News broke yesterday afternoon that The Tank, previously titled Der Tiger, is officially the ...

An Editor at Large: Satire from columnist Gerry Baker detailing how the U.S. easily won the 2026 Battle of Greenland, but the consequences proved convulsive for all. Historians differ about the real ...

Best known for his roles in Forrest Gump and Toy Story, Tom Hanks once starred in a massively underrated WWII movie that’s sinking on streaming charts despite having a sequel on the way. Hanks stars ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 3. "During the Frankfurt Trials against concentration camp officers, the statements of witnesses were recorded. I once listened to ...

Eighty years ago, American troops were home for Christmas for the first time in years. For the previous four years, troops had faced holidays away from family, and in whatever conditions the war ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos. By Jill Cowan Jill Cowan grew up in the ...

For some families, the end of World War II brought long-awaited reunions with returning soldiers. For others, it marked the traumatic realization that their loved ones were among the many still lost ...