Dr. Masao Tomonaga was two years old when he survived the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki. Today, he and other survivors ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

In May 1945, American forces rolled into Berchtesgaden, one of the final symbolic targets of World War II in Europe. This ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

A letter sent from an American soldier to his mother in Massachusetts has been delivered 76 years after it was sent, CBS Boston reports. Army Sgt. John Gonsalves, 22 at the time, wrote to his mother ...

Maceo A. Walker was 20 when he was killed in the battle of the Cinquale Canal, a little-remembered, four-day struggle between men of the segregated African American 92nd Division and German forces in ...

The good news for 1942 was that mobilization exceeded all expectations. Cooperation and patriotism swept the country. In the Detroit suburbs, Ford and Hudson turned from cars and trucks to bombers.

Few people connect “Operation Overlord” with June 6, 1944. In America, the date is remembered as “D-Day,” when allied troops at long last stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from Adolf ...

Assistant Postmaster Fred Haase has handled all letters addressed to Santa Claus at the Chicago post office for the last 10 years. He reported today that in the letters so far received there had been ...