When World War II ended, and the United States stood triumphant, another, quieter victory was unfolding beneath the surface. Organized crime families, once hunted relentlessly by prosecutors and ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

Each year, on the Sunday closest to Feb. 3, American Legion posts nationwide commemorate the selfless acts of four chaplains.

In the war of the Channel Islands, are you Team Donkey or Team Toad? These are the terms of semi-endearment the two main islands sling at each other: Guernsey-folk are les ânes (allegedly because they ...

As the former’s star rises while the latter’s seemingly wanes, our expert ranks the essentials to see which island takes the ...

Merrell Jr., who was the first Staten Islander to receive the Medal of Honor, earned the award for a solo assault on April 18, 1945, near Lohe, Germany, that killed 23 enemy soldiers and saved his ...

Thought to be around 2,000 years old, some believe the clay jar to be an ancient battery. If that is correct, a new study ...

An excited Bill Cooper is keen to talk about the opportunities this year’s FIFA World Cup can offer his club, Vancouver FC, ...

The German Submarine branch of the Kriegsmarine was one of the most fear-inducing branches of the German military apparatus ...

In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and captured a German submarine alive in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The ...

From Pan's Labyrinth to Schindler's List, these are the greatest war movie masterpieces of all time.