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

Across the Pacific, every battle and every skirmish had led to this moment. A colossal US armada made up of 1,500 ships and a ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

On June 12, 1940 — just over a year before the U.S. was drawn into World War II — 19-year-old Ernest Pugh joined the Army. He was a new graduate of Botetourt High School in Gloucester and was ...

Public input sought by the National Park Service in Hawaii for its plans to manage historical sites on Ford Island in Pearl ...

World War II hero Frank S. Wright has been promoted to sergeant at the age of 100. The Purple Heart winner was shot and ...

Band of Brothers and The Pacific are leaving Netflix this month. Here’s where you can still watch HBO’s award-winning WW2 dramas.

Centenarian Steve Ellis was barely 16 when he joined the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Tulane ...

China’s leader Xi Jinping, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and other world leaders ...

Further, WWII also tells us that conflict in the Indo-Pacific severely taxes logistics. In the war’s early phases, Allied forces encountered numerous logistical challenges.

Donald McPherson shot down five planes in the Pacific theater in the final years of the war, earning him the title of "ace" ...

About two dozen people gathered at a burial ground in Japan for a service that coincided with Japan’s formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri in 1945.