It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II.

Truman designated May 8 as VE Day and the western allies followed suit, according to the museum. However, the Soviet Union recognizes its Victory Day on May 9 after having a second set of surrender ...

As Europe celebrated the end of World War II on May 8, 1945, the Greek island of Symi witnessed the German surrender in the ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May ...

AP reporters and photographers chronicled the Nazis' historic defeat 80 years ago this week. Allied forces brought World War ...

Evansville built the ships that won World War II. Now one of them guards the city’s riverfront. LST-325 spent 75 years ...

On May 3, 1945, one of the greatest and most silenced maritime tragedies of the 20th century unfolded in the Bay of Lübeck in ...

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 years after World War II ...

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 ...

On May 6, 1935, in the depths of the Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Works Progress Administration to provide work for the unemployed.

The liberation of Europe, when it finally came, was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions of men and women. The ...