PARIS — The disposal of what Paris police called an “excessively dangerous” unexploded World War II bomb caused hours of transportation chaos Friday on rail and road networks in the French capital, ...
Robert H. Jackson, an American Supreme Court justice who thought of himself as "anything but a warrior," was drafted by FDR ...
History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...
President Donald Trump late Thursday announced plans to designate May 8 as World War II “Victory Day” in the United States, which coincides with the “Victory in Europe Day” that has been celebrated in ...
On August 14, 1945, the Allied Powers accepted Imperial Japan’s unconditional surrender in World War II, delivering a hard-fought American victory in the Pacific and bringing the deadliest war in ...
Meet the women who were the “secret weapon” that won the war and changed the world in the process. Meet the American women who built the planes and flew them, fought on the warfront and the home front ...
World War II veterans Lester Schrenik, left, and Joe Etheredge, both standing, acknowledged the crowd attending a ceremony on the pier next to the USS Missouri on Tuesday to mark the 80th anniversary ...