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 ...

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

A Detroit solider who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II has been identified and recovered.

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 ...

The remains of an Army private from Detroit who died as a World War II prisoner of war in the Philippines have been identified 83 years later — almost to the day — and are set to be reinterred in ...

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 ...

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.