Alford Scheiderer, who turns 100 this week, is one of the few remaining people on Earth who saw the horrors of both the ...

Okinawa on June 23 observed "Memorial Day," marking the day 80 years ago when organized combat between the then Imperial Japanese military and U.S. fo･･･ ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has likened the new effort to a "Manhattan Project 2," invoking the scale and urgency of the U.S. government's World War II-era nuclear weapons program.

World War II brought the strands of world history together. It is not enough to remember the dead, many of whom were deliberately rendered nameless by their killers. For those who survived, the ...

Despite the declaration, no executive order has been signed to implement the changes, ... November 11 and May 8, World War I and World War II, ...

NEW ORLEANS — The National World War II Museum officially broke ground on the Floyd Education and Collections Pavilion. The museum claims this new expansion will help produce more exhibits while ...

A half-ton World War II-era bomb found near train tracks in a crowded residential area just outside of Paris unleashed travel chaos across the region Friday, prompting disruptions at Europe's ...

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 ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last two remaining members of the 355 original Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, has died. He was 100.

The camp trained almost 20,000 recruits in the 1940s after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 -- a 1941 provision banning discrimination in the armed services.

For a time, it seemed as if the Trump administration believed that some of the most important heroes of World War II are woke and should be erased from the books. At least, if they happen to be Black.