world war II

Wreckage from a U.S. Navy destroyer sunk by a kamikaze aircraft attack during World War II has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. 

One of the architects of the Holocaust was Arthur Seyss-Inquart, one of the most loyal and high-ranking officers of Hitler’s Nazi party. He might have escaped justice the day the Nazis surrendered, if not for a NYC man who shared his heroic story for the first time

At the age of 27, with no previous trial experience, Ferencz became chief prosecutor for a 1947 case in which 22 former commanders were charged with murdering over 1 million Jews, Romani and other enemies of the Third Reich in Eastern Europe.

Jack Holder, a Pearl Harbor survivor who went on become a decorated World War II flyer, has died in Arizona.

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are gathering to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp amid horror that yet another war has shattered peace in Europe.

A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt.

South Korean officials are considering creating a domestic fund to compensate Koreans who were enslaved by Japanese companies before the end of World War II

Joseph Eskenazi of Redondo Beach, California, celebrated his upcoming 105th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans

A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor are expected to gather at the scene in Hawaii to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago in the Japanese bombing.

A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia

The last veteran of Mexico’s relatively small contingent of World War II veterans has died, Mexico’s Defense Department announced Thursday.

In 1943, Buffalo, New York, native Bob Stromberg went to the draft board to see when he’d be called to serve in World War II — a question he says caught them by surprise. “‘Well, here’s a live one!’ They’re usually coming there saying, ‘Please don’t take me,’” Stromberg told News4 during an interview at his Rockville, Maryland, home....

A boat found at the bottom of Lake Shasta in Northern California has officially been linked to a World War II-era ship.

The battleship was disconnected from its gangway and was slowly preparing to enter the Houston Ship Channel shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday.

The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn’t only scorched farmland and hampered river traffic. It also has exposed a part of World War II history that had almost been forgotten. The hulks of dozens of German battleships have emerged from the mighty Danube River as its water levels dropped. A rusty hull, a broken mast where the swastika flag...

The last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, will lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol.

Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, whose heroics under fire over several crucial hours at the Battle of Iwo Jima made him a legend in his native West Virginia, died Wednesday. He was 98.

More than 20 British World War II veterans have gathered near Pegasus Bridge for D-Day commemorations in Normandy.

Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed. More than two years after Congress voted to approve the award, leaders on Capitol Hill on Wednesday awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to surviving merchant mariners who provided equipment, food,…

A group dedicated to finishing the work of World War II’s Monuments Men is betting on a deck of playing cards, and reward money, to help find missing works of art taken by the Nazis