In the end days of World War II, Okuzaki served in the emperor’s army, stationed on an island in New Guinea. He was one of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... December 7, 1941. It was “a date that will live in infamy,” said President ...

Explore the most notorious weapons of WWII and discover how they worked, from buzzsaw machine guns and game-changing bombs to ...

Ragging at Sabaragamuwa university has resulted in the loss of another student’s life and there is another incident of ...

The Telegraph looks back at its ancestor papers' coverage of the World War II surrender of Germany on the 80th anniversary of the first V-E Day on May 8, 1945.

The war between the US and Japan had started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The ...

Among those in attendance was 99-year-old World War II veteran Harry Humason, who served in Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army, 5th Division, 2nd Infantry Regiment, according to festival spokeswoman ...

Everybody understood that a new and frightening age had begun. Japan’s surrender was announced by Emperor Hirohito on August 15, 1945 – now VJ Day in the UK – and formally signed on ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki cost at least 200,000 lives but almost certainly saved many millions more and brought Imperial Japan to surrender ...

Tusk spoke at a Dutch Liberation Day ceremony where WWII veterans were given a standing ovation by crowds who lined streets to watch a military parade as modern and wartime aircraft flew overhead.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will undergo heart tests at a hospital after an unspecified problem was detected during a routine checkup, Japanese media reports said Monday.

Akihito had heart bypass surgery in 2012. Akihito ascended to the throne after his father, Hirohito, died in 1989. No other emperor has abdicated in modern Japanese history. But Akihito has broken ...