World War II fielded some of the first iconic fighter jets in military history. It also saw the arrival of some profound ...

Components of Little Boy, the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, were quietly delivered to Tinian Island in 1945 by the cruiser USS Indianapolis. Japan sank the ship a short time later, ...

Here are the 10 best war documentaries on Netflix right now, covering everything from the rise of the Ottoman Empire to the ...

Marine Cpl. Leighton Willhite saw the M4A3 Sherman tank, nicknamed “Lucky,” for the first time in 80 years at the National ...

Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II ...

“Huffer” would track tugboat captain Fred Murphy’s morning trek across the lake for coffee at Templin’s. In May 1986, he live ...

When Dorothy Lehman was called home from a friend’s house on Dec. 7, 1941, the then-13-year-old Pottsville girl could not have imagined she was on the cusp of history. “My parents and grandparents ...

A heartfelt commemoration took place to honor World War II veterans stationed in the Pacific, featuring guest speakers and displays of milita ...

Video contains artwork that fans have said resembles the Rising Sun Flag, widely associated with Japanese imperialism ...

In our travel stories roundup this week: the mysterious origins of the world’s only non-rectangular national flag, plus four ...

By 1867 the otters had been hunted nearly to extinction, and Russia was broke from the Crimean War. Czar Alexander II sold ...