Eighty years after the lights were plugged into a humming Army generator, the spirit of the “greatest celebration in American ...

During World War II, the Germans launched one of the war’s most audacious undercover operations — one that involved soldiers disguised as Americans. Codenamed Operation Greif, this unit was made up of ...

A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, a little girl was walking to school in northwest Washington, D.C. when she found a baby squirrel that had ...

David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies. By David Pierson Reporting from Hong Kong China’s ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How ...

Journalists watch as Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in Moscow, Russia, March 1, 2018 (AP photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko). Click to share on Twitter ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

During a bill signing ceremony in the White House earlier this year, Donald Trump made bizarre statements suggesting that Vladimir Putin led the Soviet Union during World War II. "He lost 51 million ...

In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...