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 ...

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

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

The question now looms larger than ever: are we witnessing the birth pangs of a new global conflict – or has World War III ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On July 16, 1945, the first successful test of the atomic bomb was conducted in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak ...

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

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

EXCLUSIVE: The Express attended the landmark gathering which comes weeks before the UK prepares to mark 80 years since the ...

"I feel like this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," a Japanese researcher who confirmed the vessel told Newsweek in an exclusive interview.

Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.

Visitors to the Kansas Aviation Museum got a close-up look at “That’s All, Brother,” a restored C-47 aircraft that led the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. The World War II-era plane drew large crowds ...