Eighty years ago this week marked the formal end to World War II when Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies aboard a US ...

The fate of the Pacific Theater of War had nearly been sealed in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. US forces had done the ...

RELATED PHOTO GALLERY In a ceremony at Pearl Harbor, where Imperial Japan’s surprise Dec. 7, 1941, attack drew the United States into World War II, a crowd gathered Tuesday on the pier beside the ...

The United States National Archives and Records Administration on Thursday started displaying one of the two original copies of the instrument of surrender of Japan in World War II as part of a ...

About two dozen people gathered at a burial ground in Japan for a service that coincided with Japan’s formal surrender aboard ...

Reg Draper, 100, was a stores assistant on Royal Navy battleship HMS Duke of York, which was sailing off the coast of Japan ...

There might be tensions with the US today, but China has not forgotten a group of American pilots and support crew. They were hired on contract to help the country fight the mighty Japanese in World ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan (V-J) Day, observed in the U.S. on September 2—the day in 1945 ...

As the nation marks 80 years since World War II ended, 98-year-old Navy veteran Bill Reeves of Henrico recalls his service ...