If anyone would benefit from some quality time at a history museum, it’s White House officials. Take Vance’s line on the end ...

World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers, following Adolf Hitler’s suicide in Berlin as Soviet ...

Mr. McPherson served as a Navy pilot of a Hellcat fighter plane aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex in the Pacific theater.

World War II veteran Charlie Rinehart turned 100 years old Aug. 22. He got a surprise visit from a Pro Football Hall of Fame ...

A World War II veteran from Nebraska believed to be America’s last surviving “ace” pilot because he shot down five enemy ...

The glass roof absorbed much of the impact, and Magee was found alive, but badly injured. In total, he suffered 28 shrapnel ...

Amid the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end comes the death of what is believed to be America’s last surviving ace, Don ...

Outnumbered and outgunned, the crew of the U.S.S. Johnston fought overwhelming odds before their ship sank more than 21,000 ...

They roll down Beijing streets, covered from prying eyes by huge tarpaulins, but the silhouettes of missiles, tanks and ...

Garrett Graff's new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, is an oral history of the first atomic bomb. Below, the ...