May 8, 1945 - a bright day in history that witnessed the world erupting in joy as the war in Europe ended after years of ...

BBC's Tokyo correspondent Shaimaa Khalil explains why in Japan the 15 August is a mourning occasion known as the "Memorial Day for the End of the War". World War Two in Europe ended in May 1945 but ...

1945: In the single deadliest air raid of World War II, 330 American B-29s rain incendiary bombs on Tokyo, touching off a firestorm that kills upwards of 100,000 people, burns a quarter of the city to ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - "Evil Unbound", which depicts Japanese germ warfare during World War Two, set a first-day box office record among the war films released in China this year, as Beijing seeks to ...

With the possible exception of Gen. George S. Patton, no American who rose to prominence during the Second World War could compete with Gen. Douglas MacArthur when it came to either influence or ...

The napalm bombing of Japanese cities remains far less notorious than the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even though more people died.

RAF and allied personnel who had bailed out of a disabled aircraft successfully wearing a parachute made by the Irvin Air ...

On Friday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced the remains of a World War II veteran from New Ulm have been identified.

Evil Unbound, which depicts Japanese germ warfare during World War Two, set a first-day box office record among the war films ...

Last summer in a used bookstore, I happened on an enormous, bound volume of Life magazine, from July–September 1945. I opened to the very first story in the first issue, July 2, 1945. The headline ...