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 ...
As historians James Holland and Al Murray chronicle in their finely detailed book “Victory ’45,” it took a lot to end the ...
The first day of 1945 did not go the way Royal Air Force air controller Sgt. Peter Crowest expected it to. Shortly after reporting for duty at 9:00 a.m. at the airfield at Ursel, Belgium, Crowest and ...
A 106-year-old WWII veteran reveals how his US Navy ship survived a Japanese kamikaze attack in the Pacific theater.
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Remains of WWII Medal of Honor recipient identified after 80 years
Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi was killed in 1945 after U.S. aircraft, unaware there were prisoners on board, scored a direct ...
Local Veteran Ed Buffman was invited to speak aboard the USS Missouri in Hawaii on the 80th anniversary of the official ceremony that ended WWII. Buffman was on the ship when the surrender ...
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Photos show the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki
The B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki to end World War II is on display at the National Museum of the US Air ...
Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...
World War II was the deadliest international conflict in world history, leaving almost 80 million people dead. Although the devastating impact of World War I tended to stick to the battlefield, ...
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