It is the first time that a Japanese emperor has mourned at a site where Japanese people were detained abroad, according to the Imperial Household Agency.

Thousands of European volunteers who had joined the Waffen SS found themselves abandoned, surrounded, and left with nowhere ...

Horror movies changed dramatically after World War II, and here is why the change happened and what it meant to the horror ...

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is "home to some of the most pivotal moments in American history," the bloody Civil War battle, a ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S.

The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945, by nearly 50 nations in California. Signed at the historic Veterans’ ...

But we feel that way.” The country had a War Department since its founding until the aftermath of World War II, when the departments of Army, Navy and Air Force were each given Cabinet status.