U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of ...

Navy photo of the USS Ward’s Number Three Gun and its crew. They were Minnesota reservists credited with firing the first ...

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

In the wider world 70 years ago, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigned and was replaced by Anthony Eden; ...

Photographer Gillian Laub has been taking photos of as many Holocaust survivors as she can – models of courage, fortitude and ...

Frank and Irene (Deter) Malizia, met when Frank was stationed in Great Bend during World War II. Irene was from Antonino. The ...

Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photos from Iwo Jima helped the United States raise $26 billion for the war and served as the basis ...

The world's largest and most lavish private sailing yacht at the time, Sea Cloud was commissioned into WWII service.

Evidence has been uncovered that decades-old street snaps by the famed photographer are still stashed in old files at The ...

"They didn't talk about it and so we didn't ask," Gary Greenwood said of his father's WWII memories and photos. "I sure wish ...

The deafening booms of the first airstrikes. Buildings bursting into flames, reduced to rubble. Terrified people hiding in ...