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Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

Germany and the US built some of the largest aircraft in World War II, although many of their designs were unsuccessful.

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The Army logistics support vessel SSGT Robert T. Kuroda, stationed at Pearl Harbor, is named for a World War II Medal of ...

In doing so, Gen. Andrew Poppas, who currently leads FORSCOM, will retire, and the Army’s deputy chief of staff for operations, Lt. Gen. Joe Ryan, will put on a fourth star and assume command of the ...

Army’s postseason hopes came down to the final game of the regular season, when the Black Knights defeated conference ...

Five area men were among the more than 1,000 killed in a surprise World War II German attack on an Allied port in Italy that ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight in 1961, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that ...