Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

It was 1939. Germany, under the leadership of Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler, had already annexed Austria, the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia without much problem. The Americans considered Germany ...

Meet the women who were the “secret weapon” that won the war and changed the world in the process. Meet the American women who built the planes and flew them, fought on the warfront and the home front ...

Ensign Eugene E. Mandeberg, a 23-year-old U.S. Navy Reserve pilot from Detroit, who was killed during World War II, has been ...

Check out real voices from the frontlines, an account of the first-ever ‘smart weapon’, a videogame in which the fight against fascism continues.

World War II officially began on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. The war would continue to rage in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania for six years, coming to an end in 1945.