After World War II, Germany was divided into what became two sectors: West Germany, controlled by the Western Allies (United ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

In April 1954, Soviet spies Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, masquerading as Canberra diplomats, defected to Australia. This Cold ...

With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target ...

The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France ...

Following World War II, Winston Churchill was facing two daunting political and governing challenges in pivoting from serving ...