Carriers are built with layers of armor, watertight compartments, and reinforced bulkheads. Even if directly hit, plenty of ...

On September 2, 1945, the Second World War ended when Japan officially surrendered. Today, on the 80th anniversary, the ...

The National Archives has recovered the volume, which includes more than 500 pages of data from March 1941 to June 1942. It ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan surrendered, launching an era of alliances and trade. Now, with memories of the war fading, so is the consensus on how to avoid a repeat.

There, fierce battles left behind sunken warships, aircraft and unexploded bombs ... The Pacific as a dumping ground World War II in the Pacific involved four years of conflict between Japan and ...

Community leaders and decorated veterans gathered to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Centenarian Steve Ellis was barely 16 when he joined the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Tulane ...

Japan must maintain necessary defense capabilities, but its Constitution, born of the lessons of defeat in World War II, and its policy of exclusive self-defense impose clear limits. Raising defense ...

Mel Orpilla is not an actor, but when Fortner reached out to see if he would participate in the reenactment, he knew it could ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the Japanese and the Allies gathered to mark the official end of WWII. The process went smoothly until Col.

The bottom of the hull was largely intact, but the sides of the 137-foot ship had split open — likely due to 138 years of ...

On the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, CNN’s Stephanie Elam sits down with veteran Robert Somrak who served on ...