It was news that every mother in her street had been dreading. As Hitler's Panzers rolled across France towards Dunkirk in 1940, Alice Barber opened her local paper to read that her 20-year-old ...

On the afternoon of May 14th, 1940, beleaguered citizens in the Dutch city of Rotterdam looked skyward as they heard the approaching drone of German bombers; through the thick, noxious smoke drifting ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — The 1940s were a time of war for the United States, and Ann Arbor stepped up to help in various ways as World War II persisted. Many community members enlisted to serve overseas ...

You've likely seen the iconic image before - a woman in a red polka-dot bandana, rolling up her sleeve and flexing her muscle ...

March 18 (UPI) --The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John ...

LONDON, June 2, 1944 (UP) -- R.A.F. heavy bombers, embarked upon a campaign to ruin Nazi rail communications in Western Europe, attacked German targets in enemy-occupied territory again during the ...

regularly outselling the adventures of Superman during the 1940s. The sales of comic books increased markedly during World War II. They were cheap, portable and had inspirational, patriotic ...

The New York City that emerged from World War II was a dramatically different place ... like nothing before or since. By the late 1940s, New York had become the world's largest manufacturing ...

Our picture editor Craig Alexander has trawled through our extensive Glasgow archive to bring you some of the images that summed up the city in the 1940s.

A group of Army veterans and military vehicle enthusiasts from the county will embark on an ambitious fundraising journey.

Gotanda, whose work focuses primarily on the Japanese American experience and World War II, was feeling creatively blocked; he was looking for a new approach to his work. With the help of a composer ...