Truman designated May 8 as VE Day and the western allies followed suit, according to the museum. However, the Soviet Union ...

A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces ...

Great Britain, the United States, and other Allied nations celebrated Victory in Europe Day as World War II came to an end in ...

World War II officially ended later in the year on Sept. 2 when the Japanese signed an instrument of surrender, though Japan waved a white flag on Aug. 14 – about a week after the United States ...

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or ...

President Donald Trump continued his inaccurate insistence Wednesday that World War II ended for the U.S. on May 8, 1945, ...

V-E Day, on May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe. But we're still learning that conflict's deepest lessons.

A military parade, flypast and balcony appearance by the royal family on Monday kicked off four days of U.K. celebrations marking 80 years since the end of World War II. King Charles III saluted ...

A vehicle was found in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously torpedoed by a Japanese ... Fletcher's flag car as the Yorktown served as his flagship during World War II.

Beneath the eerie waves of Truk Lagoon, the seabed spins a tale of devastation, loss, and shattered pride that spans into the ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WBKO) - Gov. Andy Beshear has ordered flags at all state buildings to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday, April 26, in honor of an Army pilot from Kentucky who ...

In World War II, it participated in the battles of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa, two key US defeats of Imperial Japanese forces in 1944 and 1945 respectively. The ship, designated as a submarine chaser ...