Inside the story of an odd-looking fighter jet that became one of WWII's most effective covert aircraft, due to its short ...

As young as he was, John Bush Jones remembers World War II on the home front. He was 5 at war’s end but has vivid memories of meals under rationing, bombers dropping war-bond leaflets over his Chicago ...

Vast swarms of aircraft were built during the Second World War as combatants constantly tried to seize an advantage. With so ...

World War II was the deadliest international conflict in world history, leaving almost 80 million people dead. Although the devastating impact of World War I tended to stick to the battlefield, ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3-to-1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...

To identify the biggest armies in World War II, 24/7 Wall St. used data compiled by Statista. Countries are ranked by the total estimated number of troops mobilized during the war. We only considered ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Notre Dame military history professor Ian Ona Johnson provides the key questions for his lecture on the contest for control of Atlantic ...

World War I (1914 to 1918) and World War II (1939 to 1945) saw some of the biggest naval battles and operations in history, and shipwrecks from this era are scattered across the world's oceans — ...