Out of the 1,500 men on his ship, Del Thielke was the only one selected to be aboard the USS Missouri when the peace treaty ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

The end of the war heralded a new, more peaceful world, economic worries, and release of previously censored news about Pearl Harbor blame and a wave of Japanese balloon bombs. The front page of the ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — James Carlile recently turned 100 years old. The World War II veteran sat down with Nexstar’s KAMR to speak about his time in the United States Navy and share his stories ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. September 2, 2025, marks 80 years since ...

“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death — the seas bear only commerce — men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The ...

Crown Prince Fumihito, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, said ahead of his 60th birthday on Sunday that he found the ...

For three consecutive days, French infantrymen suffered under accurate German bombardment. Over four million soldiers had ...

Rana Mitter, the S.T. Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945, said the book recounts China's "horrific" World War II ...

Tuesday marked 80 years since Imperial Japan’s formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending the Second World War. That ceremony in Tokyo Bay was the end of a global struggle that claimed more than ...