A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat.

A Canton McKinley student became a member of the famed all-Black Tuskegee Airmen World War II Army Air Force unit. Here's the ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side ... “most major loss” during the war.

Some 10,000 people were evacuated from the German city of Dresden on Thursday after the discovery of a bomb dating from World War II. The device was discovered on Wednesday during the demolition ...

During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter, are instantly drawn to each other leading to an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from tragedy ...

The German philosopher saint was canonized on Oct. 11, 1998, and proclaimed co-patron of Europe in 1999 by Pope John Paul II. Edith Stein ... other prisoners of war. Franciscan Friars (OFM ...

The Nazi’s most infamous extermination camp was home to at least six orchestras made up of prisoners that the SS commissioned during World War 2. And now a special documentary on rediscovering ...

Their story disappeared in much of the history of World War II, but with a new movie, the Columbia native has hit the spotlight, more than 20 years after her death. After achieving the highest ...