In 1942, Geb Galle saw bombers take off for the Doolittle Raid. His ship was later sunk and he spent a day-and-a-half in the ...

Americans fired “the shot heard round the world” in Lexington in 1775, the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, and the Japanese ...

John Gilbert Winant, the ambassador to Great Britain in the early 1940s, became the first head of the Social Security ...

On Saturday, Stowe, now 98, sat alongside nine of his fellow veterans at the National World War II Memorial as a sailor rang a Navy bell at 12:53 p.m. — exactly 83 years to the minute from the ...

The Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor left an indelible mark on the lives of those who experienced it and galvanized a generation of Americans to rally united as World War II unfolded.

News Nation/World World War II veterans honored at Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony Dec. 7, 2024 Updated Sat., Dec. 7, 2024 at 8:18 p.m. WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 06: U.S. President Joe ...

A look at the effects of World War II on California and its lasting impact. Every American was impacted by the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.