Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

A French government minister says that train services will gradually resume and roads will reopen after the disposal ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

The rules-based orthodoxy which has sustained the global order since the end of World War II in 1945, concurrently anchored ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...

Survivors of the 1945 Battle of Manila recount in ‘Children of the War’ how they escaped ‘mass executions’ during the ...

The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...

But to Filipinos like Fernando Vasquez-Prada – who were forced to learn the tune as children by the Japanese occupation forces in the second world war ... 3 to March 3, 1945.

Eighty years ago, on Jan. 9, 1945, I Corps landed on the beaches of northern Luzon at Lingayen Gulf, playing a ...