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 ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

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

Behind the dreamy scenery of the HBO show’s latest location lurks an explosive story of Thailand’s involvement in the ...

A 2019 discovery by Danish divers found the wreck in the depth of the Baltic Sea, leading excavators to later pull evidence ...

In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...

The Sunshine State of today — the one that spans the era the vast majority of the state's residents live in now has been shaped in the past 80 years.

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

This story has been corrected. Two American veterans of World War II who fought to free the Philippines in 1945 are headed back to help mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila.