On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American ...

After German U-boats sank two Mexican oil tankers in May 1942, Mexico entered WW2 and formed an air expeditionary unit known as the Aztec Eagles. Squadron 201 trained in the US before deploying to the ...

On this day in history the USS Kidd launched. It served as a guided missile destroyer in World War II, serving both the Caribbean and the Pacific.

The USS Massachusetts is largely believe to be the ship that fired the last shot of World War II. Here's what happened to ...

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

The Gloster Meteor, Britain’s first operational jet fighter, was developed under strict secrecy during the Second World War.

In this article, we answer your most searched for questions about World War II, covering Hitler’s motivations through to key ...

Thomas McGuire Jr. was chasing Dick Bong's record when his life was cut short several months before war's end.

In 1942, during the darkest days of World War II, Lieutenant Colonel Wendell Fertig refused to surrender after the fall of ...

On Feb. 19, 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone.

They will search for remains of four U.S. soldiers, including a general who became a hero after his refusal to obey Japanese orders led to his execution.