Rhode Island native John DeLeo served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and is one of the last living witnesses to the Japanese surrender.

The bomb didn’t just flatten a city—it ripped a hole in the world so deep that eight decades later, we’re still peering into ...

In August 1945, the two successful war-ending bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted from top-secret training ...

Rhode Island's John DeLeo, 99, talks about what it was like watching Japan surrender in a formal ceremony aboard the USS Missouri, ending the war, 80 years ago.

Steelcase, which stated Monday, Aug. 4, it is being acquired for $2.2 billion by HMI Corporation, came from humble beginnings ...

With a “secret” weapon preparing to gamble and end the war in the Pacific, only a select number of scientists, military ...

A new temporary display at the Iron County Museum in Caspian honors the 112 men from Iron County who went to fight in World War II and didn’t make it back alive. Museum director Kathlene Long ...

IT was the day that changed the world for ever – when the first atomic bomb brought ­Armageddon to Japan.  Oscar-winning 2023 ...

Eighty years ago this coming week, at 8.15am on August 6, 1945, Little Boy, the first atomic weapon to be used against an ...

The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched last-ditch fight that ultimately lead to Allied victory.

Admiral C. W. Nimitz signing the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, 2 Sept. 1945 American History Museum photograph ...

Recently, researchers located the bow of the USS New Orleans, a WWII cruiser, which was heavily damaged at the Battle of Tassafaronga in 1942.