Part of the Auschwitz war crimes court inspects the former Nazi extermination center in Poland in December 1964, where more ...

Binondo is the center of activities in Manila during the annual Chinese New Year celebrations where thousands gather for the ...

Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as president. May 8, 1945 V-E Day. Germany surrenders unconditionally. World War II in Europe is over. May 12-18, 1945 In Okinawa, Marines hit Japan's ...

BOSTON--Twenty-two historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa in World War II have been returned to Japan after a family from Massachusetts discovered them in their late ...

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess ... a key element in the Allied campaign for German loyalties. By 1945 the British had established more than 40 clandestine pseudo ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture on June 23 marked its 78th Memorial Day to honor the victims of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. By the end of the fighting in 1945, more than 200,000 people ...

Codebreaking during World War Two. video Codebreaking during World War Two This short film explains how cracking Nazi Germany's coded messages helped win World War Two. VE Day. video VE Day ...

Unexploded bombs are still routinely found during construction work in cities across Germany that were heavily bombed during ...

In 1945, the victorious Allied powers gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations, the foundation of a new global order that would make another world war impossible.

The remains of a U.S. soldier who was killed in action during World War II in Germany were brought back to Rhode Island on Monday. In 1945, U.S. Army Sgt. Jack Zarifian, 19, resided in Bridgeport ...