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 ...

B-2 Spirit stealth bombers launched from Whiteman AFB on a transatlantic round-trip sortie, supported by an E-6B Mercury flying from Ramstein. Let's look ...

About 80 years ago, on 02 September 1945, World War II ended with the signing of documents on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo harbor. In the USA, that is ...

Friday morning, I learned that longtime Seymour resident Wayne Barker had died the previous day at the Copper Rock facility ...

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

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Mark Hager President, Forks of the Yadkin and Davie County History Museum Inc.

The academic debate over the history of the Asia-Pacific War and Japan’s colonial era has been largely resolved. So why does ...

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

Many experts wrote off the battleship before 1991—but that year, they proved key to ensuring America’s decisive, rapid victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army.

The Walking Dunes Trail takes you through a rare inland dune field where the sand is constantly shifting, creating an almost desert-like landscape in the middle of coastal Delaware. It’s like someone ...

Much media coverage this past summer has been devoted to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, when Japan surrendered to the allied powers in a September 2, 1945 ceremony on the deck of the ...

Vietnam celebrated the 80th anniversary of its declaration of independence from colonial rule on Tuesday, with its largest ...