80 years after their victory in Europe and the Pacific, heroes share stories of the friendships they made and the memories ...

In the final months of World War II, Germany fielded desperate formations in a last attempt to slow the Allied advance. This ...

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

Jim Sharp was one of the lucky ones. And at age 101, he’s still around to talk about it. While he feels a “little weak and weary” at times, he considers himself fortunate. He was blessed with another ...

In one minute, experience the Battle of Berlin, the final showdown of World War II in Europe. This video captures the Soviet ...

In 1945, as Europe celebrated peace, Winston Churchill quietly asked his generals to plan an attack on the Soviet Union. But ...

Baumkuchen, a confectionery with German origins, has found an unexpected home in Japan, where it is now a wildly popular ...

Italian society, comfortably ensconced in the anti-fascist narrative, regarded the victory as its own. After Mussolini’s ...

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western ...

On May 9, 1945, Hermann Goering, Luftwaffe chief and Hitler’s designated successor, was captured by the U.S. 7th Army in ...

On July 11, 1798, Congress formally ordered the creation of the Corps as a permanent military service under the Secretary of ...