CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics now ...

A top historian offers a compelling history of perhaps the most remarkable holiday season in 20th-century history--December 1941--a Christmas season that played out in the shadows of the Pearl Harbor ...

During World War II, British women were factory workers, codebreakers, spies and air raid wardens. How did such roles contribute to the Allies’ victory?

A parade of vintage Army vehicles passed by Dick Sharp's home in Windsor, a salute to wish him a happy birthday. He recalled the years following the war as "the best of times," when education was ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (WCSC) — Sunday marks 84 years since Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, the surprise military strike that killed 2,403 Americans and propelled the United States into World War ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

Gold-medalist Josef Jennewein of Germany, center, silver-medalist Alberto Marcellin of Italy, left, and bronze-medalist Rudolf Cranz of Germany perform a fascist salute on the podium during the 1941 ...