The island of Tinian was used to launch U.S. bomber raids on Japan during World War II, including the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Pvt. Oscar Avery Cox and other Bataan prisoners of war endured harsh conditions during World War II, including a miles-long ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

World War II veteran Martin Copenhafer, who survived D-Day in 1944, is starting over at age 104 after his Malibu home was ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense ...

William Henry Pratt, who survived both the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of dangerous patrols aboard a ...

Services were held Monday for Gilbert "Gil" Nadeau, who survived kamikaze attacks while serving aboard a Navy landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Nadeau died Oct. 19 ...

The remains of a Marine killed in World War II were identified and are scheduled ... when he was killed during the U.S. campaign in the Pacific, the agency reported. He was a member of the 2nd ...

This is the fourth part in a series of special history columns about World War II. Almost two months into the fighting of World War II with enemies in the Pacific and in Europe, Cobb County had become ...