Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

Eric Moyse will never forget his childhood days in South Tyneside. They were filled with memories of air raids, barrage ...

The dissident Kundera was writing behind the Iron Curtain after World War II about the importance of ... Schneider argues that we Americans have paid a high price for dragging our heels when ...

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The realities of World War II – the deadliest war in human history – have often ... sent into battle without training or weapons, leading to high casualties. Yes, I first heard about this from ...

President Donald Trump continued his inaccurate insistence Wednesday that World War II ended for the U.S. on May 8, 1945, when Nazi Germany capitulated. That date, however, precedes an additional ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

Last week, President Trump announced plans to officially designate May 8, the date when the Germans signed the articles of surrender to end World War II in Europe, as “Victory Day.” ...

Eighty years after World War II ended, he is sounding a warning against the return of fascism. The war was still raging when Leitmann and his comrades from the 286th Combat Engineer Battalion of ...

to “Victory Day for World War II.” Trump did not issue an executive order following the announcement, though he could do so later on Friday. “Many of our allies and friends are celebrating ...

President Trump said he wants to rename the federal holiday Veterans Day “Victory Day for World War I Day” and add another holiday to commemorate World War II, declaring the United States ...

President Donald Trump late Thursday announced plans to designate May 8 as World War II “Victory Day” in ... and as a day of prayer and of high resolve that the cause of justice, freedom ...