Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...

A mosaic panel on travertine slabs, depicting an erotic theme from the Roman era, was returned to the archaeological park of ...

World War II, the world's deadliest international conflict, left almost 80 million people dead. Here's what started it and why it ended in 1945.

The staff at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum have just completed a project to digitize more than 1,000 photographs taken ...

During World War II, the United States suffered 292,129 dead and 139,709 missing. The crew of the USS New Orleans was no exception, as more than 180 people died after being hit by ...

World War II was a time of unimaginable hardship, courage, and transformation. Seemingly overnight, ordinary folks were ...

Recording World War II veterans for posterity 07:28. In 1943 Vincent Speranza, the son of Italian immigrants, enlisted when he turned 18. "I decided to be a paratrooper when I found out that that ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The remains of a Michigan man who died as a prisoner of war during World War II have been ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced this week that U.S. Army Pvt. Henry J. Smith, 27, of Fulton, New York, who ...

World War II has been an ideological battlefield in today’s war in Ukraine, with Russia falsely calling Kyiv’s government neofascist and citing that as the rationale for its invasion.