Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Eighty years on, few people ...

This is 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion Day in Ohio, a day that honors the work of an extraordinary group of ...

Reenactors in olive-colored uniforms ran and ducked over snow-covered ground, weapons-bearing military vehicles rolled along roads and the sounds of 1940s firearms boomed through the air on Feb. 23 at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 80 years ago, high above the jagged peaks of the Himalayas, American and Chinese pilots braved the perilous "Hump" air ...

Marines hug the ground as they land on Iwo Jima, Feb. 19, 1945. (AP/INP Pool) What happens when a retired Navy captain and a military historian walk into a bar? That’s what Capt. William Toti and Seth ...

Thursday is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. As leaders of countries that suffered greatly during and after the war, we attach great importance to this date. We remember our ...

At the beginning of “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," the great Czech author Milan Kundera tells the story of a cold, snowy day in Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the height of Communist rule. A man ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of the formal end of World War II. The International Museum of World War II in South Kingstown offers visitors a chance to examine ...

A former Oak Lawn Community High School student saw a stack of documents left out for the trash and thought the papers might deserve a better fate. They ended up being dozens of letters from World War ...

A Council on Foreign Relations symposium on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II suggests two critical lessons for policymaking today.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Behind the familiar history of World War II lies a forgotten front, lined with unsung heroes in the battlefields of China whose ...