In the final months of World War II, Germany no longer fought for victory but out of fear, survival, and the belief that ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri.

Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day conflict ...

The sun was a few hours from setting in Pennsylvania and had already been up for a couple of hours in Japan when the Enola Gay moved rapidly in the sky over Hiroshima and dropped a single bomb on the ...

The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II will be commemorated at The Lamp Theatre in Irwin on Sept. 21 with newsreels from World War II, Jeeps such as the ones used during the war, historical ...

Plenty of documentaries have been made about the Second World War, with the best ones including The Memory of Justice, The ...

The P-51 Mustang is remembered as a World War II icon, but its story did not end in 1945. This film follows the Mustang, the ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, books by Hastings, Moorhouse, Clavin, and Passmore shed new light on the conflict.

Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one seldom, if ever, gets mentioned, and it was one of the most consequential—the ...

In 2026, the very definition of the collective West will change after Washington’s withdrawal from the “global policeman’s” ...