"History is the life of nations and of humanity," In War and Peace, the great writer Leo Tolstoy observed. This year marks ...

Price Day, former editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Sun, Evening Sun and Sunday Sun, witnessed the German surrender at Reims, ...

The memory of blood dripping from trucks loaded with the mangled bodies of U.S. soldiers arriving at a nearby war cemetery straight from the battlefield in 1945 still gives 91-year-old ...

The expansion of the veterans online memorial includes the names of almost 93,000 veterans killed overseas during World War ...

In January 1945 the end of the Second World War looked hopeful, but was by no means guaranteed as the Nazis continued to ...

The orders also announced the formation of several new artillery and engineer units to be composed of Black soldiers, ...

Children walk by a memorial gravesite at the Ardennes American Cemetery in Neupre ... As the nation celebrates the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Veterans Affairs officials ...

It wasn't until a few weeks ago, when my great-aunt shared a fragile, worn sheet of paper with faded blue ink, that I learned about my family’s desperation to stay in touch during World War II. The ...

Known as Victory in Europe Day, May 8 marks the date that Germany surrendered to Western powers after Adolf Hitler and other ...