World War II

Parachutists jumped from World War II-era planes on Sunday into the skies above Normandy in France where war once raged.…

The visual spectacle near the village of Carentan-Les-Marais heralded a week of ceremonies for the fast-disappearing generation of Allied troops…

Despite being a pioneering force in photography and visual documentation in the early 20th century, and with her images still…

Polish prosecutors have ended an investigation into human skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other…

An unexploded 500-kilogram World War II bomb was discovered this week in the Rhine River in the German city of…

Three paintings by the Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens have been permitted to remain at the Courtauld Gallery in…

A World War II-era bomb whose discovery prompted one of the largest peacetime evacuations in British history has been detonated…

Until now, UNESCO has refused to classify arenas of war as World Heritage Sites – but the institution has now…

Eighty years to the day after his execution by the Nazis at Mont-Valérien, Armenian resistance fighter Missak Manouchian will be…

Eight decades ago, amidst the turmoil of World War II, a group of 76 daring detainees carried out a remarkable…