WW II

More than 50 metres below the Arafura Sea, north of Darwin, lies a submarine that was the first Japanese warship sunk by the Australian navy in World War II. Now, the ...

The town of Independence, California, on historic U.S. Highway 395 in the Owens Valley—bordered on the west by ...

“Soldiering in Patton’s army was tough,” remembers 97-year-old Ernie Rabineau. “We called him ‘Old Blood and Guts.’ We ...

Vladimir Lenin took over Russia with 2,000 Bolsheviks. Under former President Barack Obama, 20,000 U.S. communists were setting the ...

Donald White was shaving when his friend ran in excitedly to tell his unit the news: The war ...

Germany's president asked for forgiveness for his country on Sunday for the suffering of the Polish people during ...

A U.S. World War II-era bomb discovery caused the evacuation of 1,300 people from downtown Hong Kong over ...

TOKYO—Emperor Akihito expressed rare "deep remorse" over his country's wartime actions in an address Saturday marking the 70th ...

Chinese official media memorialized the beginning of World War II in China recently—but it was a false set ...