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 ...

We're revisiting our 2022 chat with Princeton middle school social studies teacher David Gray.He and his students worked on a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

A look at the effects of World War II on California and its lasting impact. Every American was impacted by the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The entrance of the U.S. in World War II had major ...

The modern East Wing was constructed in 1942 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt to conceal an underground White House bomb ...

Few people connect “Operation Overlord” with June 6, 1944. In America, the date is remembered as “D-Day,” when allied troops at long last stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from Adolf ...

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 ...