World War II

Four bronze memorial plaques valued at $10,000 were also stolen.

The atomic bomb was meant for Kokura, not Nagasaki.

Now more than ever, they fear the threat of nuclear war.

The bombs that exploded in the air above the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first and last use of atomic weapons in human history.

Rudenko was a trailblazer for women in sport and remembered for saving children from the besieged city of Leningrad in World War II.

Unexploded World War II munitions are regularly found in Austria and Germany.

Veterans who landed on Normandy beaches in June 1944 make a poignant return to D-Day Landings sites.

Viewing these images side by side is a moving reminder of the passage of time, as well as the bravery of the Allied forces.

The U.S.-made Catalina seaplane crashed in 1945, but it was not piloted by an American.

Thousands of people may need to be evacuated.

Unexploded bombs from World War II are a persistent hazard in Germany, even more than 70 years since the end of the war.

The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade held a ceremony as the threat from China is said to be growing.

Japan’s claims to islands seized by Soviet forces in World War II and installation of U.S. missile defense have troubled relations with Russia.

The controversial comments were made as Poland faces international backlash due to legislation that made it illegal to blame Poles for the Holocaust.

The search was funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

The march of the Latvian Legionnaires brings together veterans of two divisions of the World War II-era German Waffen-SS.

"I think it's significant that Trump does this badly," assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll Tim Malloy told Newsweek.

“When it comes to families, I think it’s about giving them answers.”

“As Americans, all of us owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who served and who continue to serve our country for their courage, persistence and sacrifice.”

The letter, which could be worth thousands, has been locked away in a safety deposit box for half a century.

This woman was overlooked as the inspiration for the iconic poster.

Mike Huckabee earned a swift backlash for his comparison of Donald Trump to British wartime hero Winston Churchill.

Nazis built a fake village to hide their worst atrocities.

In 1941, two small Malyutka vessels dropped off radar while on duty in Russia's Far East.

Russia’s increasing military activity and NATO’s mobilization of troops across Europe have put nonaligned Finland in a tough spot.

On December 7, 1944—three years to the day after the Pearl Harbor attack—the USS Ward was destroyed by Japanese kamikaze aircraft.

A German court has ruled that Oskar Groening is fit to serve his sentence, which was handed down after a conviction for 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.

Years of hospital records tell a story of enduring, possibly inherited trauma.

It's set for August 14.

In recent years, archaeologists and historians have been pushing for more research to be conducted on the identities of Nazi Germany’s many victims.