The May 1943 secret operation by Britain's Bomber Command involved a groundbreaking, high-risk mission to destroy German dams ...

Camp Callan, a US Army anti-aircraft and coast artillery replacement training center was built to prep troops for a war that increasingly felt inevitable.

In late 1943, German fighter pilots dominated the skies over Europe, destroying American bombers at will. This film tells the story of how the arrival of the P-51 Mustang shattered that dominance and ...

On foggy nights during World War Two, runways were lit with fire to help guide bombers home. For thousands of RAF pilots, the ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

German artist Anselm Kiefer pays tribute to forgotten women of proto-science with his exhibition, "The Women Alchemists." The ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

With the help of a ceremonial sword, a symbolic and long-held tradition of Navy celebrations, friends and family cut the cake ...

Tourists to Milan during the Winter Olympics hoping to see Leonardo da Vinci’s “ The Last Supper” were in for an unwelcome ...

Newspapers across Germany claimed that Lt. Kenneth Williams' flight jacket was "photo evidence for the underworld nature of ...

She appeared in French New Wave movies for Roger Vadim, Claude Chabrol and Jean-Luc Godard before marrying the iconic ...

From pitch black and piping hot to barista-made macchiatos, U.S. presidents have all had different coffee preferences. Let's ...