As the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II nears, Chinese parade soldiers are being put through their paces ...

The Second World War has been described as the greatest human catastrophe of all time. The scope of destruction and lives ...

Garrett Graff's new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, is an oral history of the first atomic bomb. Below, the ...

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.

World War II veterans, some age 100 or older, gathered Friday at a Lehigh Valley ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of ...

Cam Pelletier was a 23-year-old serving in the Navy in the South Pacific in August 1945 when President Harry Truman announced ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was a turning point in world history, pulling the United States directly into World War II. But what if Japan never launched the attack? This video ...

Memories of the war, such as the Imperial Japanese Army's bombing of Darwin, remained vivid for many Australians, and ...

The Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang has held a reception marking the 80th anniversary of what China observes as its victory over ...

The air show and other presentations at the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, commemorated the victory ...

They roll down Beijing streets, some covered from prying eyes by huge tarpaulins, but the silhouettes of missiles, tanks and ...