A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded ...

An Indianapolis family buried a soldier in the 1940s, believing he was theirs. DNA now confirms his remains are finally being ...

World War II veterans, some age 100 or older, gathered Friday at a Lehigh Valley ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its WWII surrender with PM Shigeru Ishiba expressing "remorse" for the first time since ...

Count Folke Bernadotte, the nephew of Sweden's King Gustav V and a colleague of Herman Allen, helped arrange a ceremony for ...

Cam Pelletier was a 23-year-old serving in the Navy in the South Pacific in August 1945 when President Harry Truman announced ...

A heartfelt commemoration took place to honor World War II veterans stationed in the Pacific, featuring guest speakers and displays of milita ...

An East Texas World War 2 veteran celebrates a big milestone today, turning 100 years old. Surrounded by friends and family, ...

Even after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was not universally expected that Japan would ...

In just 30 seconds, we use Google Earth to visualize the entire course of World War II. From the initial invasions to the ...