2, 1945, to officially end World War II. China and Russia commemorate Sept. 3 as the victory day over Japan. Aug. 15, 1945, is simply the day when Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as ...

The wreckage of a U.S. Navy ship known as the "Ghost of the Pacific" has been found off the coast of California by a team of underwater investigators. The USS Stewart, a Navy destroyer, was sunk as a ...

His other World War II blockbuster Saving Private Ryan came in at No 2, but the director’s Holocaust movie has the highest ...

Undersea investigators have located the wreck of a century-old US Navy destroyer, USS Stewart, that was lost for nearly 80 ...

Hundreds of ex-combatants from the losing side of the Civil War fought against the Nazis while enlisted in the British army.

when tens of thousands of people in Netherlands died during a Nazi blockade at the end of World War II. The book blends real events - including those experienced by Jansma's family - with fiction.

Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...

"The security environment surrounding our country is the most severe since the end of World War II," he said in his first press conference after being approved as prime minister by parliament ...

The P-51 Mustang, often hailed as the best operational piston-engined fighter of WWII, was rapidly developed by North ...

Learn more here. Pittis, 21, was killed in action near the town of Beiersdorf, Germany, on Feb. 8, 1945, near the end of World War II. His body was unable to be recovered due to intense fighting ...