Dr. Masao Tomonaga was two years old when he survived the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki. Today, he and other survivors ...

It has been seven decades since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan by the United States killing tens of thousands of people and prompting the end of WWII. And it is exactly 70 years ago ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

In May 1945, American forces rolled into Berchtesgaden, one of the final symbolic targets of World War II in Europe. This ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

Assistant Postmaster Fred Haase has handled all letters addressed to Santa Claus at the Chicago post office for the last 10 years. He reported today that in the letters so far received there had been ...

A town wracked with guilt must come to terms with the horrors of its war atrocities in “1945,” a somber drama set in the immediate aftermath of WWII. Two Orthodox Jews arrive in a small Hungarian ...

A letter sent from an American soldier to his mother in Massachusetts has been delivered 76 years after it was sent, CBS Boston reports. Army Sgt. John Gonsalves, 22 at the time, wrote to his mother ...

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NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. (WHTM) – William is a precocious 4-year-old from Harrisburg who was dressed in a bomber jacket. He was singing to himself and anyone in earshot Wednesday. “Off we go into the wild ...