In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Cannon fire, fighter jets, missiles and goose-stepping troops filled Tiananmen Square in a ...

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

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

QUINCY — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Wendell Mauter says it’s important to look back at the global conflict. “World War II helped shape so much of the world we live in today,” the ...

Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, heavily armored tanks. His life connected three centuries, along with every ...

Next weekend, the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg will be hosting an event to commemorate the upcoming 80th ...

The “Dancing Mouse”—the Clemson-class destroyer more formally known as the USS Edsall— and its more-than-200 servicemen went ...

World War II ended off the coast of Japan, but the 80th anniversary of its conclusion will be marked in San Bernardino. The Inland Empire Military Museum plans a Friday, Sept. 12, ceremony to honor ...

While Gettysburg may be best known for its Civil War history, World War II history is coming to life in Gettysburg this weekend in a three-day event featuring tank rides, a helicopter landing, and a ...

World War II, which claimed the lives of 40 million civilians and 20 million soldiers, was a tragic time when seen through a humanitarian lens. However, it is poetic how the period, in which the ...

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, holds a portrait of his father, also named Vladimir, as he walks with others carrying pictures of their relatives who fought in World War II, during ...

President Donald Trump went on a strange rant about World War II when he was asked about his upcoming military parade, revealing a phone conversation in which he and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...