In the final months of World War II, Germany fielded desperate formations in a last attempt to slow the Allied advance. This ...

The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

It was the one-word headline that the people of Syracuse had wanted to see spread out across the front-page of the Post-Standard for almost four years during World War II. And now, finally, on the ...

The beginning of the end of World War II came on Aug. 15, 1945, (it was Aug. 14 here) when Japan surrendered to the Allies just days after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima on Aug. 6 ...

Maceo A. Walker was 20 when he was killed in the battle of the Cinquale Canal, a little-remembered, four-day struggle between men of the segregated African American 92nd Division and German forces in ...

Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...

Plenty of documentaries have been made about the Second World War, with the best ones including The Memory of Justice, The ...

The P-51 Mustang is remembered as a World War II icon, but its story did not end in 1945. This film follows the Mustang, the ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

The good news for 1942 was that mobilization exceeded all expectations. Cooperation and patriotism swept the country. In the Detroit suburbs, Ford and Hudson turned from cars and trucks to bombers.

WWII veteran Jack Minton received commemorative medal in Elkhorn ceremony as part of Governor Pillen's program honoring ...

The removal by a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands of two displays recognizing Black troops who fought in World War ...