Enemy soldiers overlooked Josefina "Joey" Guerrero due to her condition. Later, her heroic actions on behalf of the Allies ...

Four American nuns were unexpectedly rescued from behind enemy lines by the crew of USS Nautilus (SS-168) during World War II ...

Chieko Ryu, who as a girl was captured in an iconic photograph taken a day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, died on Aug. 15, the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

A man has earned public opprobrium for placing sushi and Japanese beer on a statue in front of the Japanese consulate in ...

World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States ...

Tupperware targeted women who were interested in working, Tupperware, Inc. During the Second World War, women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the ...

Americans Harold Terens and Jeanne Swerlin promise their courtship is "better than Romeo and Juliet": He is 100, she's 96, ...

After World War II, however, Japan's right-wing forces harbored aspirations of reclaiming the nation's status as a formidable political and military power. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has ...

LOS ANGELES — The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II have been ...

In this revisionist history of the United States government relocation of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, Roger W. Lotchin challenges ... The greatest testimony to the American ...

The eight-stop national tour gives the public a peek into one of only two of the World War II planes still flying.