The brutal Pacific campaign revealed the ferocity of Japanese defenses and civilian commitment, foreshadowing the staggering ...

Olympic fans may know that Cortina d'Ampezzo hosted the Winter Games in 1956, but less well known is an event that was held ...

Two gravesites, less than 10 miles apart in a crowded, noisy, Asian metropolis of 14 million, stand testament to the horror, ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military pilots, breaking barriers during World War II. Today, their story is on display in the Miami Valley at the National Museum of the U.S.

In President Donald Trump’s “America First” mindset, allies are afterthoughts and previous US presidents were stupid.

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri. At then-Camp McCoy, Wis., the thousands of ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...

What makes the World War II genre of filmmaking so rich, and also so difficulty, is that they must walk a thin line between sobriety and glorification, dread and hopefulness, life and death. The best ...

Dwight David Eisenhower was born on Oct. 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas 135-years ago. His family later relocated to Kansas. His path from a small-town in Kansas to Supreme Allied Commander in Europe ...

Friends of the National World War II Memorial and the National Park Service on Tuesday co-hosted a Veterans Day observance at the memorial, honoring the 16 million American men and women who served in ...