The Battle of Okinawa was one of the largest and bloodiest campaigns of the Pacific War in 1945. This video examines the ...

The Rock Falls American Legion held its annual Honor Flight picnic on Aug. 30. Two special guests were in attendance, Eva Hoff and George Olson of Beloit, to bring attention to Vets Roll, a program ...

Did demons create the first atomic bombs? Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...

Hundreds of U.S. Marines landed on the remote island of Iwo Jima today to prepare for the 65th anniversary of one of World War II's bloodiest ...

I have seen the places where the Battle of Okinawa took place—the caves, the memorials, and the landscapes marked by battle damage — since one of the ...

The animated film is inspired by the real-life events of the Himeyuri Corps, who were mobilized, and then abandoned, in ...

The Smithsonian is at it again. But now, not just the Air and Space Museum, but the entire enterprise, is going woke. The ...

Fans of classic war films like Saving Private Ryan are urged to add an upcoming Netflix historical drama to their watch lists. The streamer, which has a whole host of war films in its library, ...

On April 1, 1945, the 4th Marines landed on Okinawa for what would become the largest and bloodiest land battle of the ...

After seven long years of reconstruction, Shuri Castle is reopening on November 23. Learn more about its history and how to ...

Enno Lolling, the camp physician at Dachau who collected human skin, and Rudolf Hess, the commandant of Auschwitz, tried to link up with the SS leader Heinrich Himmler at Flensburg, the last pocket of ...

My copy of “The Greatest Generation” is autographed to me by Robert Eugene Bush, who personified the title of Tom Brokaw’s ...