The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer. But its specter looms large today. The war ended empires, upended ...

Aug. 14 is National Navajo Code Talker Day, honoring the over 400 Code Talkers who served with U.S. Marines in the Pacific ...

Cam Pelletier was a 23-year-old serving in the Navy in the South Pacific in August 1945 when President Harry Truman announced ...

Tommy Anderson of Dover, who helped the Allies win World War II as a soldier in the "ghost army," died Aug. 1 at age 102.

Aggression loses,' and nations 'must unite to defeat' any 'ambition of expansion and aggression,' for freedom and peace, Lai ...

Top collectors on the island have amassed hundreds of thousands of artifacts — and there are still more being found.

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.

Jack Tueller thought to himself that the sniper, suddenly being on the losing end of World War II in Europe, was probably as ...

In August 1945, 80 years ago, an anonymous sailor kissed an anonymous nurse. It became one of the iconic images of World War ...

President Harry Truman announced Aug. 14, 1945, that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to end World War II. In several ...

The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships during World War II. It was also the site of a successful emergency appendectomy ...

The Wood County Historical Commission is hosting of mobile museum of WWII exhibits in honor for 80th anniversary of the war ...