With every rifle earmarked for a soldier, there was a likelihood this soldier would be placed on a battlefield and told to ...

In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended to every continent on Earth. As such, British forces fought in every theatre of the conflict alongside troops ...

with both the Allies and the Axis powers fighting tooth and nail for supremacy. In spite of this, however, there were some incidents in which soldiers from one side actively or inadvertently aided ...

while the United States had the potential to bomb Europe and make a military landing there. All three Axis powers boasted of the superiority of their fascist militaries. But the Germans ...

The two men had been photographed as equals, working together to beat the Axis powers. "One of the things the American Army was trying to do was to prove to the black soldiers -- to prove to ...

Harry S. Stewart Jr., a fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for three kills in a ...

Fighter jets, tanks, and *mules* in WWII? All Creatures Great and Small's official production historian explains.

After much of Europe had been occupied by the Axis powers for four years, the Allies finally launched their campaign to liberate Western Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord, on 6 June 1944.