The U.S. Army’s Japanese American “Purple Heart battalion” is U.S. history’s most decorated military unit for its size and ...

May 8 is the 80th anniversary of V-E Day, which celebrates the Allies World War II victory in Europe. As a nation and ...

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 ...

The end of World War II shaped Long Island's character, development, economy and self-concept as thousands of returning GI's ...

Operation Rype, the only combat mission conducted by U.S. forces in Norway during World War II, exemplifies the extraordinary ...

Major General Ray Shields, the adjutant general of New York, will mark the end of World War II in Europe as the New York ...

Europe will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender on May 8. But thousands of locals remain committed ...

More than 100 SS troops appeared out of the woods that morning. Despite the state of the German military, they had plenty of ...

The Soviet bomber fleet grew to over 2,000 airframes, starting with piston-engine planes and then evolving to jet-powered ...

The orders also announced the formation of several new artillery and engineer units to be composed of Black soldiers, ...

Two ongoing — not to mention free — exhibits at the Layland Museum commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end as well as the war’s effect on the Johnson County home front. “The focus is to ...

The Missouri's captain ordered a military burial at sea with full honors, marking one of the more unusual and little-known episodes of World War II. The pilot received the same funeral that the ...