One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...

Of the more than 11 million American armed service members who served during World War II, only about 66,000 are still alive today. Chief video correspondent Graham Flanagan interviewed 106-year-old ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

Once-despised "entai" concrete bunkers built here during World War II to protect military aircraft should be preserved as "a ...