Get to know the actual people and events that inspired Steve McQueen's new film "Blitz," now streaming on Apple TV+.

Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial ...

There's no doubt that McQueen's World War II epic is among the most well-crafted films of the year, boasting some genuinely ...

A combat veteran, hero, airplane hobbyist and caretaker of protected land, Hal Urban provides a lesson on purpose and ...

The USS Edsall, a World War II American warship, was bombed and sank three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Patty Stevens, one of nearly 5,000 Americans held captive by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II, just celebrated her 100th birthday.

The B-26 Botha’s design was flawed because there were too many operational requirements imposed that often ran counter to ...

Czechowski is one of an estimated 119,000 U.S. World War II veterans alive today, just a small percentage of the 16 million ...

In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: ...

Unlike that film, which took a familiar potboiler premise and gave it a distinctly political, feminist perspective, Blitz tells a story that — on paper, at least — feels positively Spielbergian. It ...

A large cache of World War II-era bombs found in a Beatrice home proved to be non-explosive, but it still serves as a ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War ...