Nearly 80 years after a midair collision killed 13 young airmen during World War II training in Garland City, residents of the town are working to ...

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

New Yorkers shout their joy at hearing reports of Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945. (Fox Photos/Getty Images) Facts and summary, V-E Day, also written VE Day: V-E Day stands for ...

Eighty years after the lights were plugged into a humming Army generator, the spirit of the “greatest celebration in American ...

By Astrid Lindgren, Translated by Lee Myung-ah, Sigongsa, 640 pages, 32,000 Korean won** Last December, Han Kang, who visited ...

In the midst of a world pandemic, Britain stopped Friday to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe, tuning in to a televised speech by Queen Elizabeth II that recalled dark days of ...

A letter sent from an American soldier to his mother in Massachusetts has been delivered 76 years after it was sent, CBS Boston reports. Army Sgt. John Gonsalves, 22 at the time, wrote to his mother ...

In 1945, World War II Veteran Ed Kinslow missed his high school graduation because he was busy flying for the Air Force. At age 94, he is finally getting the chance to walk across the stage on ...

The second world war played a huge part in the industrial revolution within the United States as the country fully mobilized its industrial resources to out-produce its enemies. These machines of war ...