On February 3, 1945, the US Army sent over 800 Black women overseas to England aboard the SS Ile de France. Their mission was unknown to them.

How a forceful German counterattack in February 1944 could not push back the Allied Anzio landing.

The heroic stand of Finland against the Soviet Union in 1939 was a lesson for the ages.

American soldiers liberated the concentration camp at Buchenwald on April 11, 1945, and were profoundly shaken by what they discovered.

On June 6, 1944, Western Allied forces launched Operation Overlord, the massive Allied invasion of Normandy, France, to liberate Nazi-occ...