Few chapters in World War II history are as contentious as Vichy France. After the 1940 defeat, Marshal Philippe Pétain’s ...

He will be the first French leader to be incarcerated since Philippe Petain, the Nazi collaborationist head of state who was ...

This year is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the extermination and concentration camps. After World War 2 ended in ...

A massacre of African World War II riflemen demanding pay for fighting for France in 1944 was premeditated, covered up and ...

Tucked away in a secluded industrial quayside in south Wales, a "forgotten veteran" of World War Two is hiding in plain sight ...

Nearly 80 years after his D-Day death, Nicholas Hartman's remains were escorted to their final resting place at the Houston ...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday ...

France awarded its highest honor, the Légion d’honneur, to the Chinese contingent’s last survivor in 2006. Huang Tingxin, ...

World War II veteran Jospeph Barrington, 99, was honored at a ceremony at Legacy Park in Glenville with Oscar Ramirez, III, ...

The M4 Sherman was the backbone of Allied armored forces in World War II. It devastated German armor and infantry across ...

A long-lost diary from a Chinese officer is shedding light on a lesser-known part of D-Day history. Found by urban explorers ...

Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon, is frequently regarded as the ...