Eighty years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman authorized the U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan. Just days earlier, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, a Canadian diplomat made a slight ...

Local Veteran Ed Buffman was invited to speak aboard the USS Missouri in Hawaii on the 80th anniversary of the official ...

In a ceremony at Pearl Harbor, where Imperial Japan’s surprise Dec. 7, 1941, attack drew the United States into World War II, a crowd gathered Tuesday on the pier beside the battleship USS Missouri — ...

RELATED PHOTO GALLERY In a ceremony at Pearl Harbor, where Imperial Japan’s surprise Dec. 7, 1941, attack drew the United States into World War II, a crowd gathered Tuesday on the pier beside the ...

Sitting inside his Grandview, Missouri, home of nearly 75 years, you might not guess that Ben Teevan turned 100 on ...

A day of profound global significance — the formal end of World War II — occurred on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when Japan officially surrendered in what signaled a hard-won ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan surrendered, launching an era of alliances and trade. Now, with memories of the war fading, so is the consensus on how to avoid a repeat.

RELATED PHOTO GALLERY A day of profound global significance—the formal end of World War II—occurred on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when Japan officially surrendered in what ...

I remember seeing the Japanese walking down the dock. The Marines were frisking all of them. We were top-side all over the place, hanging off the masts and over the side of our ship, anyplace ...

Thousands celebrate in Albany's Capitol Park on Aug. 14, 1945, after Japan announced its intent to surrender. The front page of the Times Union on Sept. 2, 1945, the day of Japan's formal surrender, ...

"If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation," Vance said in an interview that ...

Three words always come to mind for the Rev. Dan Lawrence of Murrysville Alliance Church when he speaks to his flock as well ...