A great international distinction for Greece came from the UN World Tourism Organization, as Anogia in Crete is among the 55 ...

An decision by the Diocese of Joliet about church closures in Will County could force the closure of Park Forest’s history ...

Vanguard isn't for everyone. Luckily for history buff gamers, World War 2 is a popular setting for shooters and strategy ...

Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

For years, scores of unexploded practice bombs dating to World War II lay buried beneath the feet of playing children in northern England. What's more, the 175 or so bombs likely would have ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over the Germans. To ensure the ground effort got to Berlin, the air war had to ...

King Idomeneus was the ruler of Crete in the time of the Trojan War, and he participated in that event according to Greek ...

WASHINGTON — During the height of World War II, more than 900 service members, civilians and crew aboard the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester sailed through the North Atlantic for Greenland.

One of the most inspiring anti-Nazi German heroes of World War 2 was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who vocally condemned Adolf Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of ...

Sligo’s poet W. B. Yeats died on January 28th 1939, two days before Hitler’s famous Reichstag speech. The fascist rhetoric of the dictator’s speech on the annihilation of the Jews tragically ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...