Lithuania’s Jewish community was one of the most devastated by the Holocaust in all of Europe. During the Second World War, ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, Gen. Yamashita personally surrendered to the 32nd Infantry Division, where, according to an official ...

What started off as a high school classroom assignment for students in central Utah turned into a multi-million-dollar project honoring Japanese Americans who s ...

Some of the largest and most significant battles in history were fought with aircraft carriers. Here are five historic ...

A parade of military and law enforcement dignitaries joined the Redwood Heights community on Sept. 18 in saluting Corey, a ...

California state Judge Johnny Cepeda Gogo, formerly from Guam, was honored by the California Judges Association (CJA) on Sept ...

Retired firefighter Benjamin Broadwell Hagans, 96, has emerged as an eyewitness to the savage executions of three soldiers in ...

Donald McPherson, a World War II veteran considered the nation's last surviving "ace" pilot from the conflict, has died at the age of 103 in Nebraska. While serving as a Navy pilot of F6F Hellcat ...

The National WWII Museum of the U.S. holds an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the war's end in New Orleans, ...

As young marines, Peter MacDonald and Thomas Begay transmitted top secret military messages using their native language. It ...

Tad Taube, an American businessman and philanthropist who founded and funded the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews ...

The president wants the museums to mirror U.S. pride, power and accomplishment without all the darkness, and threatened to hold back money.