Excerpt: Rare World War II maps reveal Japan's Pearl Harbor strategy. On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, ...

FREE for AARP members. Help Register Login Login Hi, %{firstName}% Hi, %{firstName}% Games Car rental A parade in Pittsburgh on March 2 celebrated the 100th birthday of native Julia Parsons, a World ...

BUTTE — On the 80 th anniversary of the end of World War II, a special plane lands in Butte for the annual Wings and Wheels event at the Bert Mooney Airport. "In 1943 and early 44, before those P-51's ...

By Wendy Watkins, Bangor Daily News Staff. Maine residents and first responders saluted as police escorted the remains of WWII Pvt. Willard Merrill from Boston to his hometown of Dover-Foxcroft on ...

Discover how wartime meteorologists helped shape the D-Day invasion. Their timely forecast changed the course of WWII and revolutionized modern weather prediction.

WWII veteran conducts emotional concert in honor of 100th birthday. Colonel Arnald Gabriel served as conductor of the United States Air Force Band for decades.

Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing ...

World War II veteran Wilbur “Jack” Myers, a 101-year-old who fought in the U.S. Army’s 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, hands a souvenir postcard of himself to Ryan, a young French boy, on ...

For those moments, he was 30 again, playing his part in turning the tide of World War II. He spoke about Gilbert then, his voice soft and wistful. “I wonder what ever happened to him?” ...

WWII vets are rock stars in France as they hand over the duty of remembering D-Day. D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 102-year-old who is also a star on TikTok, with 1.2 million followers, ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city’s biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

More than 20,000 residents were forced to evacuate their homes on Wednesday in Germany after three World War II-era aerial bombs were discovered. The operation would take the bomb squad hours to ...