On this date in history: In 1692, Bridget Bishop was found guilty of the practice of witchcraft and hanged in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was the first colonist executed during ...

The wreckage of a German warship that was struck by a British torpedo in 1940 has been discovered off the coast or Norway. Norwegian power grid operator Statnett said the cruiser Karlsruhe was ...

The years between 1940 and 1945 were a very bleak time for the patriotic citizens of Norway. This was because the country was occupied by a large number of German Nazi soldiers who took away many of ...

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Seventy-two years after Jesse Whitley of Mabelvale joined other members of the 474th Infantry to aid in the liberation of Norway at the end of World War II, the government of Norway sent its gratitude ...

A very detailed, well illustrated, look at what was the first "joint" operation of the Second World War, the highly risky and amazingly successful German invasion of Norway in April of 1940. It opens ...

I was sitting in our apartment in Glendale, but I may as well have been on another planet that day in 1993. My grandmother, helping me with a sixth-grade report, was vividly recalling the depredations ...

I was sitting in our apartment in Glendale, Calif., but I may as well have been on another planet that day in 1993. My grandmother, helping me with a sixth-grade report, was vividly recalling the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German officers stand before Oslo's National Theater in 1940 after taking control of Norway during World War II. On June 10, 1940, ...