Tom Hanks is set to play President Abraham Lincoln in a live-action/stop-motion animated hybrid film, produced by Hanks ...

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed in Normandy, France. Eventually, over 3 million Americans would participate in the European Campaign to defeat Germany. Losses quickly mounted as German forces ...

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When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...

OUISTREHAM, France (AP) — The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first morsel of one of World War II’s most closely guarded secrets: Prepare ...

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There was a group of American tourists — many of them veterans of units like the 82nd Airborne Division — who had arranged to lay a wreath at the magnificent D-Day memorial on the cemetery overlooking ...

The body of a stowaway was discovered in the wheel well of an American Airlines plane that landed at Charlotte Douglas airport Sunday morning, prompting an investigation. American Airlines planes sit ...

A maintenance crew was working on an American Airlines plane that had arrived at Charlotte-Douglas Airport when the body was found in the plane’s landing gear, WSOC reported. The person was pronounced ...

A stowaway was discovered dead inside the landing gear compartment of a North Carolina-bound American Airlines flight, according to authorities. The unidentified body was found in the main landing ...