Working as an administrative officer, Bright helped to organize several wartime and postwar conferences including Tehran and Yalta
Pacino is taking on the role of James Laughlin, the lawyer who defended Mildred Gillars from charges of treason
As a member of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division he helped liberate Dachau concentration camp toward the end of World War II
Never-before-seen artifacts belonging to top Soviet snipers in World War II will be showcased in a new Moscow exhibit called “Snipers of Stalingrad”
Coolidge received the Medal of Honor on June 18, 1945
"I get a lot of mail from servicemen who have lost an arm or a leg. I don’t know what to tell them, but I try to answer all their letters"
Busted down in rank four times and perhaps the first soldier to receive a Purple Heart without being wounded, Sergeant John Shelby nonetheless proved himself on the battlefield
Red Sox legend Ted Williams proudly served as a Marine Corps aviator during World War II—it was his service in Korea that came as a surprise
“That’s official. Make the date[line] Reims and get it out.”
The Italian frogman earned his nation’s highest award - an honor bestowed on him by the hand of his enemy
"We want letters pouring in; we're hoping to deliver him hundreds of get-well notes," the XVIII Airborne Corps Facebook page stated
“You have to keep your mind healthy, it’s the only way to survive"
Ritchie is teaming up with Jerry Bruckheimer, acclaimed producer of “Top Gun,” to bring the exploits of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) to the big screen
An interview with author and historian Dr. Moritz Föllmer sheds light on how the Nazis reshaped culture to engineer extremism, war and genocide
"Only Man deserves brute suffering"
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