David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...

Japan’s beloved former Emperor Akihito is marking his 92nd birthday as his heart condition stabilizes, palace officials say, ...

When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most ...

Emperor emeritus Akihito turned 92 on Tuesday after spending the past year reflecting on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, with his condition stable following a new heart diagnosis, the ...

The ship, according to Trump, will be longer and larger than World War II-era Iowa-class battleships and armed with ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.

The crew of the battleship now anchored in Wilmington spent Christmas 1943 in the South Pacific, where they enjoyed a surprise from home ...

Step back in time to the tense final days of World War II as we uncover the dramatic story of America’s last great dogfight over Japan. While most believe the war ended quietly after the atomic ...

On the evening of December 21, Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visited a photo ...

The post-World War II international order was built upon a fundamental consensus between the victorious and the defeated. For ...

As two principal Axis powers in World War II, Japan and Germany embarked on starkly divergent paths in the decades that ...