The Whirlwind was a heavily-armed, single-seat, twin-engine fighter designed for high performance, with great attention paid ...

James Calderone traded frozen ponds and frigid winters for long bus rides and a string of Sun Belt cities in his move from ...

China had been invaded by Japan in 1931—the first sign of war—and 1937. And the United States did not get active. And finally ...

Published 75 years ago, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" tells the story of four children who are evacuated from London ...

Fashionistas and history buffs can both enjoy a free program about fashion during the 1940s at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 10, at Mentor ...

Coined by the military as "landing ship, tanks," or LSTs, U.S. forces deployed ships from southern Indiana to the Pacific ...

A mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground is actually of ancient Mediterranean origin, genetic ...

Many Arkansans are familiar with Edward Payson Washbourne's 1856 painting called "The Arkansas Traveler." In succeeding years ...

On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Vultee Vice President of Production D. I. Caroll boasted that the plane manufacturer's Nashville division had increased productivity by two ...

Eminent scholar Roger Moorhouse recently spoke to Military Times to discuss his book, “Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War," ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might.

WARSAW, Poland -- WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Michael Smuss, who fought Nazi soldiers with Molotov cocktails during the Warsaw ...