Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...

Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...

Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as president. May 8, 1945 V-E Day. Germany surrenders unconditionally. World War II in Europe is over. May 12-18, 1945 In Okinawa, Marines hit Japan's ...

Six days after the attack, Japan surrendered to the Allies bringing to a close the most destructive conflict in recorded ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

U-3008, one of only two Type XXI U-boats to make a wartime patrol. It was brief: The war ended while the boat was en route. 1945 The first Type XXIII went on war patrol in February. By the end of ...

Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered ...

A great 1945 war movie called The Story of G.I. Joe led to Robert Mitchum's only Oscar nomination even though the celebrated actor deserved at least one more. Mitchum has starred in some of the ...

In 1991 the Soviet Union split up and the Cold War ended. In February 1945, the leaders of the UK, America and the Soviet Union met in Yalta in the Crimean region of the Soviet Union. After ...