Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...

To boost troop morale and keep an eye on postwar reconstruction, the US Army requisitioned dozens of hotels across southern ...

In 1945, a rare Stradivarius violin was stolen from a Berlin bank during the chaotic end of World War II. Experts have long ...

GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A World War II Army veteran is celebrating his hundredth birthday. “It’s been a good life, really,” said William Morrow, a veteran from Blount County. William Morrow said ...

An SMU professor teaching in Vienna on a Fulbright Scholarship laments the Trump administration’s pending cancellation of its ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

World War II veteran Leslie Sinclair was on duty manning a defensive ‘pit’ in case of a Japanese attack near Balikpapan in Borneo when he heard the joyful cries of his brothers-in-arms shouting out – ...

Grandma Jeanne Richmond turns 100 Sunday. She was born July 20, 1925, as Helen Jeanne Hoppe. She never really liked the name ...

A summer exhibit commemorating the 80th anniversary of the allied victory in World War II (WWII) aims to show the war ...

Relatives of a North Dakota serviceman who died as a prisoner of war in World War II finally have the answer they’ve waited ...

The U.S. bomb that was dropped Aug. 9, 1945, fell near the cathedral, killing two priests and 24 followers inside among the ...

In 1946, the US organized a football game featuring a pro fullback and a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in the ruins of ...