In the aftermath of the Italian entry into the war, the British began operations against Italian forces in North Africa, and quickly began winning battles despite being outnumbered in that theater of operations.
Allied forces were victorious at Okinawa, forcing a Japanese surrender. But the United States would not carry out its planned invasion of the Japanese mainland.
On June 22, 1941, the Germans launched Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of the Soviet Union with over 3 million troops.
When ordered by the French to fall back at the battle of Belleau Wood, one Marine officer, Capt. Lloyd Williams, said, “Retreat? Hell, we just got here.”
Readers sound off about naval lessons from the Falklands War and Japanese internment during World War II
Ashley Jackson charts the course of World War II in Iran and Iraq, as well as present-day implications
Roberts' new book, Churchill: Walking With Destiny, may be the best one-volume biography yet written about the wartime British PM
Before Leo Fender and Les Paul were names on headstocks, they were tinkerers who produced the most influential musical instruments of the twentieth century
Superiors branded him “difficult.” Yet Percy Hobart was just the kind of genius the Allies desperately needed.
Prisoners played joyous arrangements in harrowing circumstances.
Just back from Vietnam, a Navy pilot was given a new mission: Start a school
Author Giles Milton focuses on Operation Overlord's overlooked.
Besides making crops portable, cocktails like slings, flips, punches, and bounce were healthier than water
Infantrymen ferried into Nazi Germany via glider fought to seize 10 key bridges during Operation Varsity.
Joseph Heller's famous war novel is vividly recreated over the course of six episodes in a new streaming miniseries.
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