For many Holocaust survivors, May 18, 1945 was the first Shavuot they were able to celebrate after years of war.

Sgt. Richard Fitzgibbon Jr., of Weymouth. On June 8, 1956, Fitzgibbon died after he was shot by a fellow airman ...

Researchers took the first ever photographs of the sunken USS F-1, lost in 1917 in a collision off of California.

Breakthrough was praised for its realistic portrayal of D-Day and the brutalities of war. The film featured actual American ...

It was the first modern war and, for Americans, the costliest, yielding the most American fatalities and the greatest domestic suffering, both spiritually and physically. It was the most horrible ...

“Shell shock,” the term that would come to define the phenomenon, first appeared in the British medical journal The Lancet in February 1915, only six months after the commencement of the wa ...

Close to 15 million Americans served in the military during World War II. But the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for combat bravery, was awarded just 473 times. The first was awarded ...