The war between the US and Japan had started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The ...

This week marks 80 years since Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies, bringing the Second World War to an end in ... only being made by Emperor Hirohito on August 15.

the exhilaration of combat and seeing Emperor Hirohito during the formal Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay World War II veteran Ken Gordon was a 17-year-old “seaman boy” on HMNZS Gambia ...

Explore the most notorious weapons of WWII and discover how they worked, from buzzsaw machine guns and game-changing bombs to ...

By 1979, Hirohito was the only monarch in the world with the title "emperor". He was the longest-reigning historical Japanese emperor and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world.

President Donald Trump’s announcement that he planned to change the name of Veterans Day, on Nov. 11, to “Victory Day for World War I” prompted a backlash from some veterans’ groups, which complained ...

The students returned to Duke before the flowers bloomed, but their mission was focused on the searing experience of the Pacific Theater in World War II. They were part ... Hikotani also played the ...

The Telegraph looks back at its ancestor papers' coverage of the World War II surrender of Germany on the 80th anniversary of the first V-E Day on May 8, 1945.

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki cost at least 200,000 lives but almost certainly saved many millions more and brought ...