The opening months of World War II had a number of important impacts on California’s history. Besides becoming the initial western front in the early days ...

Navy photo of the USS Ward’s Number Three Gun and its crew. They were Minnesota reservists credited with firing the first ...

But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month. By Hannah Beech The 88-year-old pontiff has been hospitalized for more than a week and was given oxygen and a ...

I’ve always had a special interest in camouflage because my father brilliantly avoided fighting in the Second World War by becoming an Officer in the Camouflage Unit at Leamington Spa. (My uncle had ...