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

Eighty years after the lights were plugged into a humming Army generator, the spirit of the “greatest celebration in American ...

The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...

On May 5, 1945, a quiet spring afternoon near Bly, Oregon, became a tragic moment in American history. Six innocent lives were lost when a Japanese balloon bomb (one of the mysterious Fu-Go weapons ...

The Oppenheimer movie has brought up the question of whether two fission bombs were needed to end the war with Japan. This question requires understanding the situation in 1945. Germany did not ...

A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On Aug. 6, 1945, the ...

SOUTHBRIDGE - The remains of a World War II airman from Massachusetts have been positively identified, nearly 80 years after he went missing in action. U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Edward Kovaleski was ...

Machine generated contents note: Introduction xi -- One -- THE BIG PICTURE 1 -- A World at Arms:A Global History of World War II by -- Gerhard L.Weinberg 3 -- The Times Atlas of the Second World War ...