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

World War II ended 80 years ago when Japan surrendered after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here's how ...

Around 80 years after the war, Germany remains littered with unexploded bombs, often uncovered during construction work.

World War II veterans will be available for a meet and greet during an event honoring the 80th anniversary of Victory over ...

Richard Rucoba was Lansing’s only write-in trustee, won 200 medals in the Senior Olympic Games and gave eyeglasses to people ...

The impetus behind a very special co-birthday party at Brunswick VFW Post 9520 was simple: World War II veteran John Lendzian ...

Difficult and controversial as it was, President Truman's decision to drop the bombs saved countless lives, both Japanese and ...

Located in the Solomon Islands near Guadalcanal, Iron Bottom Sound experienced five major naval battles between August and ...

Many locals protested the project over fears that it would endanger the Minidoka National Historic Site, where ...

Basil Marion Cook, 31, of Hinton, Mercer County, West Virginia, was killed in November 1944 while driving a M-4 Sherman tank ...

This U.S. Navy World War II combat bulletin begins with the successful test of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert a… ...

In World War II, Italy initially fought alongside Germany as part of the Axis Powers, but by 1943 the alliance had soured.