After four years of intense fighting in the Pacific, American forces decided they would need airfields nearby to Japan in ...

The Battle of Attu was the only land battle of World War II fought on incorporated U.S. territory, and, largely due to an ill ...

The war against Japan ended before LST-325 was deployed there. The ship was decommissioned in 1946 and was mothballed until ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

World War II wasn’t just fought by men and women on the front lines, it was also defined by the machines they rode, drove, ...

An organization devoted to returning artifacts as a way to heal the emotional wounds left by the war is helping the Evergreen ...

Donald McPherson shot down five planes in the Pacific theater in the final years of the war, earning him the title of "ace" ...

When the USS Hornet sunk in World War II, a tractor used to move aircraft went down too. Now a recovery mission is being ...

Trainees in Papua New Guinea will learn to remove unexploded ordnance, as fading memories of World War II expose more people ...

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

Marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and building off the success of their debut documentary Frog Fathers: Lessons from the Normandy Surf, World of Warships and FORCE BLUE are ...

The International Museum of World War II is among the top World War II museums in the world, according to a recent article in National Geographic.