Adolf Hitler's army launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history, sweeping into Russia with devastating speed. The Red Army, poorly organized and underprepared was caught off-guard ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

Donald Rose, who died yesterday at 110, was born on Christmas Eve in 1914 and was just 25 when he signed up to fight on the ...

Pvt. Richard Gordon Wright, an Oklahoma Marine killed in World War II during the battle of Tarawa, was honored at a busy ...

There can be little doubt that Lewistown residents John Robert and Lillian M. Carr were thrilled by the birth of their son, ...

A two-alarm fire at Battlefield Vegas behind Circus Circus sent black smoke into the sky Wednesday just after noon.

Researchers have found the missing bow of the USS New Orleans, a WWII warship torn apart in battle, off the coast of the ...

Blindflug Studios has released their WWII base building strategy game Ground of Aces onto Steam Early Access. This release invites players to become the commander of a British air base during the ...

After the attack, crews sailed the USS "New Orleans" backwards for more than 1,000 miles across the Pacific. Since then, the ...

As Delbert Jackson turned right onto the clean, sandy-paved stretch of Martin Luther King Drive, his chin lifted with quiet ...

July 10 has been a day marked by pivotal events that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the most impactful events to occur on July ...

On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as the German Luftwaffe launched attacks on southern England. (The Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.) In 1509, theologian ...