The first atomic bomb, nicknamed ‘The Gadget’, was launched at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 1945. Led ...

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 ...

QUINCY — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Wendell Mauter says it’s important to look back at the global conflict. “World War II helped shape so much of the world we live in today ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki was discovered more than 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface near the Solomon Islands.

Today is a special day for one Westerville man. Albert Surette is a World War II Navy veteran celebrating 100 trips around ...

And he believes there’s evidence that people are forgetting the lessons World War II taught. “The further this history gets from us, the easier it is to forget that,” he said. “And that’s why this ...

This year's show commemorates the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, offering aerial battle reenactments of battles from the Pacific ...

The Jackson County History Center is looking for pictures of World War II and Vietnam veterans to be displayed in a special ...

The World War II Memorial at the Illinois Veterans Home lists the names of over 6,000 Adams County servicemen who fought in that war. Quincy’s Walter and Katheryn Newkirk family sent six of ...