Dredging up treasure from sunken ships is an ancient tradition, but, it turns out, some treasure, like per-war steel, is precious for different reasons.

Ebou Janha, 102, is the only surviving veteran of a regiment of Gambian soldiers who fought for the British in Burma.

Warfare before computers: A German U-boat from 1915.

Retired major Harold Skaarup explains how author Farley Mowat smuggled a V2 rocket into Canada after the Second World War.

After the Treaty of Versailles called for punishing reparations, economic collapse and another world war thwarted Germany's ability to pay.

In one Italian hospital, an invented disease helped save hundreds from the occupying Nazis

Thirty years ago, Alfred Wetzler died in his native Slovakia. He and his friend, Rudolf Vrba, risked their lives and escaped Auschwitz so they could warn other Jews and the world in precise detail what was happening behind the fences and gates of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp.

During World War II, Procter & Gamble had to retool its factories, cope with broken supply chains, and rethink its workforce management. Sometimes crisis can create stronger companies.

Every May, the US Coast Guard and the Royal Navy hold a ceremony on a sliver of North Carolina land where four English World War Two soldiers are buried.

The Waterboys

For the past 10 years, a cadre of field researchers in France has been digging up, documenting and cataloging the physical remains of the Normandy invasion.

Ernie Pyle’s dispatches offered comfort to readers back home. Then the Normandy landings — 75 years ago this week — changed his perspective on the war’s costs.

He was Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in the first airstrike against the Japanese homeland, an event that buoyed Americans still reeling from Pearl Harbor.

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.

A lone Finnish sniper repels enough invading Russians in WW2 to earn the nickname "White Death." By Jason Bellows.

Bomber pilot Richard 'Dick' Churchill, a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III, believed he escaped execution because he shared the Prime Minister’s surname.

For years few spoke about it. Many shared the feeling “You didn’t want to tell them because they wouldn’t understand or would laugh so you just closed yourself up.” The story of the horrifying crime carried out by the Russians during WWII on the people of Eastern Poland wasn’t well known and still isn’t.

On a Holocaust education trip in Poland, a writer discovers Nazi memorabilia at a flea market, in apparent violation of the law. But nothing is quite that simple.

It was undoubtedly a huge birthday for World War II veteran Duane Sherman. The Purple Heart recipient celebrated his 96th birthday just days ago, but it’s the response from thousands around the world that his family will remember for years to come. You see, several weeks ago Mr. Sherman’s daughter took to social media asking for the public’s help. Her father’s friends had all past away, she explained, and he was lonely, finding only bills in his daily trips to the mailbox.

Rotem fought Nazis in city streets, later helped rebels flee through sewers; Netanyahu says, 'His story will forever be with our people'