A NOAA Ocean Exploration crew is on a weeks-long mission researching the iconic USS Yorktown, an U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ...

Norway’s hidden torpedo battery at Oscarsborg Fortress sank the German cruiser Blücher, halting Hitler's blitzkrieg invasion.

By the time World War II began in earnest, the 601 was flying Hawker Hurricanes. Cleaver was dispatched to France with the rest of his squadron in May 1940, a week after the German blitzkrieg ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1940, as another war seemed inevitable, finding a way to replace lost blood became a medical priority. Edwin Cohn, a Harvard biochemist, took on the problem of breaking down blood ...

About half of them were shot down. BBC News reports in 1940 on the extent of German air losses during the Battle of Britain. The BBC's fledgling TV service was closed down during the War and so ...