The good news for 1942 was that mobilization exceeded all expectations. Cooperation and patriotism swept the country. In the Detroit suburbs, Ford and Hudson turned from cars and trucks to bombers.

In October 1941, the city of Odessa witnessed one of the most brutal and overlooked atrocities of World War II. Thousands of Jews and civilians were massacred under Romanian and German occupation in ...

Imperial Japan launched a devastating Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. Navy and other military assets at Pearl Harbor, rousing a "sleeping giant" and thrusting an enraged America into World ...

A “protection force” was authorized by Congress in July to guard Mare Island and other Navy shore establishments. That ...

A recent history study has been completed on the World War II (1941-1946) prisoner-of-war (POW) camp and alien internment camp that once was present near what is now South Family housing at Fort McCoy ...

Trick-or-treaters during World War II faced a grave threat to their Halloween fun. But like the rest of the country, they ...

Separated from The Netherlands by the breadth of Europe, by an even broader gulf of culture and blood. Bulgaria was last week forced to face a grim and startling fact: in the strategy of World War II, ...

On December 7, 1941, the joy of the Christmas season in Tallahassee was shattered when Japanese aircraft attacked U.S. military bases in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and, over the next few hours, also ...