WWII

The vast majority of the Japanese city's hospitals were also rendered non-functioning by the nuclear bomb.

It has been 75 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities, killing thousands of people.

The army veteran appealed for birthday cards in a YouTube video after the coronavirus outbreak forced him to cancel a large party.

The vessel may have been capable of carrying up to 100 tonnes of cargo.

The elderly veteran clashed with other vets at the parade as they held placards against President Donald Trump.

The Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" was one of five vintage World War II planes which were conducting flights at the airport this week to honor veterans.

Born Sept. 12, 1909, Lawrence Brooks served in the 91st Engineer Battalion, a predominantly African American squad stationed in the Pacific.

An art lawyer in New York is excited by a recent ruling in a Dutch case on art looted by the Nazis that will finally be returned to a Jewish family.

View staggering images of the D-Day invasion, one of World War II's most important battles.

In June, the National WWII Museum is sponsoring a 10-day cruise that will take veterans back to the battle site.

The two countries have been locked in a territorial dispute over a remote island chain since the end of the conflict.

Ordnance disposal services in Germany get around a 1,000 calls per year, clearing up bombs dropped in the 1940s.

Hitler came to power in 1933.

The 28-mile stretch to Hokkaido could be a big project for both countries but they are actually still at war.

It was unclear if the mortar was still a live weapon decades later.

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

The South Korean president spoke at an event commemorating 99 years of the March 1 Movement, one of the first public displays of resistance to the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula.

More than 1,000 military personnel were killed during the 1942 Battle of the Java Sea.

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

Poland's prime minister has been accused of "an inability to understand history" by Israeli leader Netanyahu.

With an estimated casualty count of nearly 2 million, the six-month siege of Stalingrad remains one of the bloodiest military clashes in modern history.

Poland's draft law could introduce fines and prison sentences for language that links the country to concentration camps.

The German chancellor said it was "shameful" Berlin still needed to allocate special police resources to protect Jewish institutions.

Desecration of this kind is in violation of international law.

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

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.

Undetonated bombs from World War II are discovered to this day throughout Germany.

"This particular photo was edited in a sloppy manner to make it appear the president had a mustache," the paper wrote in a post on its Facebook page.

Approximately 50 percent of Russians have never heard of or do not believe that the Soviet Union agreed to split Poland with Adolf Hitler.

The Department of Defense's POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to recover the remains of service members from conflicts as far back as World War II.