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 ...
On Jan. 21, 1945, San Diego newspapers reported a wide range of wartime activities as World War II neared its final months.
On this day in history, July 17, 1945, the Potsdam Conference begins, final Allied summit after WWII
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 ...
A letter sent from an American soldier to his mother in Massachusetts has been delivered 76 years after it was sent, CBS Boston reports. Army Sgt. John Gonsalves, 22 at the time, wrote to his mother ...
A New Podcast from the National WWII Museum Revisits the 'Most Consequential Year in Modern History'
The Battle of the Bulge finally ends. President Franklin Roosevelt dies after an unprecedented 12 years in office. Adolf Hitler kills himself in a Berlin bunker. The United States drops atomic bombs ...
This American former soldier who fought in Italy during World War II before going on to become a New York City cop is on a quest to find these schoolchildren he photographed in 1945. "I held the rank ...
HOUSTON – The Lone Star Flight Museum and the Commemorative Air Force collaborated to put on a special experience for a WWII veteran and Purple Heart recipient. This comes after 2020 marked the 75th ...
After police Officer Eric Wolforth found airmail letters from 1945 in an Andersonville alley, he took them home and started reading them. Most were addressed to a guy named Leo Lee who was serving in ...
Boy, how times have changed. On Monday, those residents and others in the Blue Ridge Cable area who have a computer, modem and telephone now have local access to a world of information through the ...
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