Richard Rucoba was Lansing’s only write-in trustee, won 200 medals in the Senior Olympic Games and gave eyeglasses to people ...

A radio navigator on a B-17 bomber and a ground crew armorer, who both served in Italy, reconnected after they were discovered to be living about 15 minutes away from each other.

Difficult and controversial as it was, President Truman's decision to drop the bombs saved countless lives, both Japanese and ...

Dec. 7, 1941, changed the lives of those in Erie and the U.S. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, forcing the U.S. into war.

Around 80 years after the war, Germany remains littered with unexploded bombs, often uncovered during construction work.

World War II veterans will be available for a meet and greet during an event honoring the 80th anniversary of Victory over ...

The impetus behind a very special co-birthday party at the Brunswick VFW Post 9520 was simple. World War II veteran John ...

Located in the Solomon Islands near Guadalcanal, Iron Bottom Sound experienced five major naval battles between August and ...

Many locals protested the project over fears that it would endanger the Minidoka National Historic Site, where ...

Basil Marion Cook, 31, of Hinton, Mercer County, West Virginia, was killed in November 1944 while driving a M-4 Sherman tank ...

World War II ended 80 years ago when Japan surrendered after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here's how Cincinnati reacted.

This 1945 Universal Newsreel showed the first pictures of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. On August 1… ...