Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...

World War II heroes remembered in reenactments, displays, ceremonies, dance and pancake breakfast at MAPS Air Museum.

In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over Poland, both the Axis and the Allied side had aerial victories and aerial “firsts”, some involving unlikely and obscure ...

After World War II, the victorious Soviet Union, the US, Britain and France divided Germany into four zones that each country would occupy. As the capital situated within the Soviet zone, Berlin ...

A new book by Matthew F. Delmont sheds light on Black Americans who have been left out of history books despite helping the Allies win the war.

World War II, the world's deadliest international conflict, left almost 80 million people dead. Here's what started it and why it ended in 1945.

What was the Second World War about? According to Allied leaders, that wasn’t a hard question. “This is a fight between a free world and a slave world,” U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace ...

How do you win a war? We're looking at that question as it applies to World War II, which ended 75 years ago this month. Host Lisa Mullins speaks with John Arquilla, a distinguished professor of ...

The colonial forces that dotted the battle maps of World War II were crucial for the Allies to fill out their ranks and keep up their momentum.

World War II allies, Germany mark 75 years since Battle of the Bulge The battle, which stopped Hitler's final effort to turn the tide in Europe, was one of the most important in World War II.

Here are 42 maps that explain the conflict — how it started, why the Allies won, and how it has shaped the modern world.