A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

World War II veterans participated in a ceremony at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., marking the … This U.S. Navy World War II combat ...

The war that had dominated their youth was drawing to a close. The Amsterdam High School class of 1945 yearbook reported that students would never forget the D-Day assembly on June 6, 1944 and the ...

The end of the war heralded a new, more peaceful world, economic worries, and release of previously censored news about Pearl Harbor blame and a wave of Japanese balloon bombs. The front page of the ...

Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned 96 this June; Senator Bob Dole, a veteran of the Italian campaign in 1945, died four years ago. But the ...

In downtown Manila, rows upon rows of headstones are laid out on the gentle slopes of a hilltop, the largest single burial ground for US World War II casualties.

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

Top 10: Surprisingly successful planes of World War 2 ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

Mongolian troops march in a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany, in Moscow, Russia, May 8, 2025. Credit: Office of the President of Mongolia This year marks ...

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