“We didn’t think about whether it was dangerous or not. . . . You concentrated on the job and not …

Capt. Nancy Wake of Britain’s Special Operations Executive was a remarkable woman. The wife of a wealthy French industrialist, she …

So was it a brilliant mistake or was it just a mistake?

The Blohm und Voss P.170 fighter-bomber of 1942 …

When the U.S. Navy disbanded the last of its blimp fleet in 1962, it marked the end of the first …

On Dec. 6, 1946, President Harry S Truman pinned seven medals on the chest of Army Sgt. Llewellyn M. “Al” …

“The biggest and hardest job since the Panama Canal.”

                                —Maj. Robert W. Madden, describing construction of the Alcan Highway

On …

The P-66 Vanguard looked right. It looked like exactly the kind of World War II fighter that might have won …

There were never very many Tiger tanks, less than 1,400 total. They were huge (German crews scornfully called them “furniture …

When the Pearl Harbor attack was over, amid the preparations for war, an accounting of the cost began. The losses …

The January 1943 Red Army victory over the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad in the south was matched that same …