More than 80 years later, officials, veterans and civil rights groups, are urging Congress to award World War II hero Dorie Miller the Medal of Honor.

More than 100 people gathered in Texas on Saturday to bury First Lt. Charles “Woody” McCook, a World War II pilot whose remains were recently identified.

A long-forgotten African American cemetery in Jacksonville, where World War II veterans and descendants of slave families are ...

In Lviv, a Polish-Ukrainian team has launched search and exhumation works with the aim of reburial of Polish soldiers who ...

Amazon Prime viewers have discovered an 'absolutely stellar' period drama set amid the chaos of the Second World War ...

Billy Joel details his Jewish family's harrowing journey out of Germany during World War II in the two-part HBO documentary ...

More than 10 per cent of the victims were Korean, the result of human flows while Japan colonised the Korean peninsula. Read ...

World War II was exactly as it was billed, fought all over the world. World War II movies, of which there are many, are set ...

World War II, the world's deadliest international conflict, left almost 80 million people dead. Here's what started it and why it ended in 1945.

During World War II, homing pigeons played a crucial role as secret agents, delivering vital intelligence from Nazi-occupied ...

131 World War II vets die each day, on average; here is how their stories are being preserved. Ever since the last American veteran of WWI died in 2011, World War II has been the oldest conflict ...