The second most popular choice was “Upton,” a tribute to the former Camp Upton, a World War I and World War II army base. The site is now home to Brookhaven National Laboratory and was once ...
Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...
The second world war marked a turning point in the history of childhood. To train young people to build peace, authorities ...
Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...
WASHINGTON — A group of U.S. lawmakers are pushing to posthumously award a civil rights activist held in the Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah, during World War II with the Congressional ...
Auschwitz survivors have told Sky News of their pessimism that lessons have not been learnt from history, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp. "I hope I'm ...
A German U-boat sunk the USAT Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, in the North Atlantic Ocean, killing 672 of the 902 servicemen, ...
Camp Beale opened in October 1942 as a training site for the 13th Armored and the 81st and 96th Infantry Divisions. During World War II, Camp Beale’s 86,000 acres were home for more than 60,000 ...