For better or worse, World War II reset the trajectory of global politics. The defeat of Japan eventually paved the way for the rise of modern China. The collapse of the British, Dutch, and French ...

On May 3, 1945, one of the greatest and most silenced maritime tragedies of the 20th century unfolded in the Bay of Lübeck in ...

A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to be used in a live-fire exercise off the western coast of the Philippines as part ...

President Donald Trump continued his inaccurate insistence Wednesday that World War II ended for the U.S. on ... “It was American tanks and ships and trucks and airplanes and service members ...

When World War II came to Palm Beach County and the Treasure ... s exciting coastal cities also silhouetted the doomed ships in German gun sights. The German strategy was to interrupt the flow ...

Events are being held across the world to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. Britain's King Charles and Prince William laid wreaths in Westminster Abbey at the culmination of the ...

A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the ... it helped get more than 400 wounded soldiers from shore to larger hospital ships and shot down a Japanese aircraft, according ...

Nicholas Oresko after presenting him with the Medal of Honor for actions he took during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Oct. 12, 1945. Photo by Congressional Medal of Honor Society Up to ...

REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust ... AP’s Edward Kennedy witnessed the German surrender in a French schoolhouse, and was the first ...

Stamps honouring those who made extraordinary contrbutions to World War 2 And as a tribute the Royal ... Violette Szabo was born in Paris to British–French parents and grew up in both Picardy ...

Europe and Russia are celebrating the 80 th anniversary of the end of World War II while marking the end ... This week sees the revival of the vital French-German partnership, enriched by a ...