Margery Hop Wong last saw her older brother Sgt. Yuen Hop in 1943. He was a soldier missing in action, until researchers ...

Based on Akiyuki Nosaka’s Naoki Prize-winning short story, Grave of the Fireflies is set in Kobe near the end of World War II ...

February has arrived with the realization that this coming September will see the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. It ...

While the world remembers the Battle of the Bulge, another brutal conflict raged in Eastern France—the Colmar Pocket. 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪 In late 1944 and early 1945, American and French forces clashed with ...

December 1944—deep in Alsace, German forces launch Operation Hawk in a desperate bid to hold the Colmar Pocket. With brutal ...

The XF8B was envisioned to provide the U.S. Navy with a long-range carrier-borne fighter that could take the fight to the Japanese mainland. When it comes to military aircraft manufacturing, Boeing is ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen, has died ...

The historic vessel "Vital de Oliveira" was positively identified more than a decade after an unsuspecting fisherman's net ...

The commander described the North Korean troops as "cannon fodder" and said their behavior in combat was erratic.

A group of U.S. lawmakers are pushing to posthumously award a civil rights activist held in the Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah, during World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal.

National World War II Museum visitors can learn about the contributions, struggles and victories of Black Americans during the war.

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...