Japan was finished. It was late 1944. The American tide had smashed through the Solomons, the Gilberts, the Marshalls, and ...

In the timeline of a conflict as long and sprawling as World War II, even the most courageous stories of valor were bound to go unreported or forgotten. For U.S. service members of color who proudly ...

On September 2, 1945, the second world war ended when Japan officially surrendered. Today, on the 80th anniversary, the ...

On April 12, 1945, wheelchair-bound, four-term president, Franklin Roosevelt, who had guided the country through the Great Depression and WWII, unexpectedly died at the “Little White House” in Warm ...

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- "This was some tough stuff," reflected Vern Shmidt, a 99-year-old Valley veteran who served during the Battle of the Bulge. He was one of a handful of veterans who walked ...

Brooke County, WV — BROOKE COUNTY, W.Va. — A heartfelt commemoration took place to honor World War II veterans stationed in the Pacific, featuring guest speakers and displays of military equipment ...

A $409 million, five-year project is restoring North Field Air Base on Tinian Island in the Western Pacific, reclaiming a historic World War II airfield from jungle overgrowth. The restored airfield ...

Captain Richard J. Bong nicknamed his Lighting P-38 fighter plane Marg after his girlfriend, Marge Vattendahl. The World War II flying ace is shown with his plan at a New Guinea Air Base on March 31, ...

A team of scientists discovered a Japanese naval destroyer for the first time since it was sunk by American troops in World War II. Researchers exploring islands off the coast of the Solomon Islands ...

The severed bow of the famed American warship USS New Orleans has been found by researchers during seafloor mapping operations in the Pacific Ocean. The bow was discovered resting about 675 meters ...