Passage: A savior of Holocaust refugees
Nicholas Winton, who died this week at 106, rescued hundreds of children - many of them Jewish - from almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis
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Nicholas Winton, who died this week at 106, rescued hundreds of children - many of them Jewish - from almost certain death at the hands of the Nazis
Studying shadows may help identify the couple in the famous Life magazine image of a young sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square at the end of WW II taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt seventy years ago
Who were the kissing sailor and nurse in the famous photo? New evidence from an unlikely source questions the popular theory
Humanitarian almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust
Memorial service marks somber 70th anniversary in Okinawa, where some families feel "the war hasn't truly ended"
70 years after the end of World War II, Japanese kamikaze share stories of sacrifice and survival
Takei's musical "Allegiance" is based on his family's imprisonment in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II
Police cordon off area near Wembley Stadium as Army bomb technicians remove a "potentially dangerous" Nazi leftover
Dozens of vintage military aircraft marked the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day - but one had to make an unplanned detour
The president says American vetrans showed "selfless grace" during World War II
Berlin had banned pro-Putin biker gang's WWII ceremonial ride, but a court has decided that was a very anti-European move
The paintings, including three won by an American GI in a poker game, were turned over to the German government Tuesday
Three of the historic paintings were won by an American GI in a poker game
WWII veteran who fought off thief put it this way: "He wasn't very aggressive, but I was"
Jozef Paczynski said he considered taking his razor to the throat of death camp's commandant
Abe is the first Japanese prime minister to address a joint session of Congress
Nationalist, pro-Putin bikers had planned ride to commemorate Red Army's role in defeating Nazis, but found themselves unwelcome
The Israeli Prime Minister, in remarks on the nation's Holocaust memorial day, warned that Iran still intends to obtain nuclear weapons
Immortalized in the film "The Imitation Game," Alan Turing never lived to how he would change the world; but his achievements are finally being recognized
Posters aimed at promoting home gardening as a patriotic gesture that would support the Allied war effort
"We don't know about how we've changed his life, but we know that he obviously changed ours," said one of the boys
92-year-old sister of Sgt. John Thompson receives ring from Albanian family who found ring after 1944 bomber crashed in mountains
Dutch police send pieces of soap purportedly dating back to World War II for forensic tests
Former gunnery officer on one of the largest battleships in history instantly remembered the station he was assigned to when he saw pictures of the sunken vessel
How a cohort of brilliant code-breakers at Bletchley Park, England, helped the Allies win World War II