Actor Cesar Romero served with the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II—here the original “Joker” displays a captured Arisaka rifle that he brought home in late 1944. Photo courtesy of ...

They represent the pilots of the Army Air Forces, Navy, and Marines, as well as the crews who flew them, the support personnel on the ground and at sea who maintained them, and the people who made ...

Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...

The Greatest Generation provided inspiration for some of the most compelling moments in cinema history. Here are the best World War II movies to educate and entertain you.

Military spending not only has national and global impacts, it affects the economy too. The United States spends more on the ...

Planes were a very new invention, they were rare and fragile. But when World War One started they became weapons. Pilots could spy on enemy targets and the first bombs were dropped from the air.

developed just after World War II, is yet another example of how old weapons can still be effective in action. There have been reports of Russia breaking out T-55s from storage - and even museums ...

The HMS "Trooper" likely sank after hitting an underwater German mine off the coast of an island in the Aegean Sea in 1943 Sarah Kuta The grassroots organization, Nihon Hidankyo, was lauded for ...

"Simple submachine or machine guns have remain unchanged as well, like the M2 Browning still in use." It is also why the T-55 ...

During World War II, battles were won by the side that was first to spot enemy airplanes, ships, or submarines. To give the Allies an edge, British and American scientists developed radar ...

When a Pennsylvania hunter inherited his father’s old deer hunting rifle, little did he know he also received a hidden time capsule dating back to World War II. Bob Olson, 67, of northern ...

What was it like to live and work in a World War One trench? Find out in our guide. Which new weapons were used in World War One? What weapons were used during World War One and what effect did ...