Seventy-eight years after an American soldier picked it from a dead German soldier in Germany ... School alumni board member ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

Jeremiah P. Mahoney had been missing in action since 1945. His remains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery in ...

When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a ...

A fortune teller read his palm and told him that he had a long lifeline and would survive the war unscathed. On the ...

As the Nazi blitzkrieg, or lightning war, raced across Europe, German forces committed unnumbered atrocities against the men, ...

World War II saw the emergence of some groundbreaking jet fighters that revolutionized aerial warfare. The Messerschmitt Me ...

- East Berliners get helping hands from West Berliners as they climb the Berlin Wall, which divided the city since the end of ...

Greek leaders have revived a long-standing demand for war reparations stemming from Nazi Germany’s World War II occupation of ...

What you might not be aware of is that there were a fair few who were captured during the action and held as prisoners of war ...

Here, Josh Levine, author of The Secret History of the Blitz and a consultant on the film, talks to TIME about the hardships ...