When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

Born in 1928, Ueno was living in Beijing when he enlisted at age 15 and was sent for pilot training in Japanese-occupied Korea. He began flying a plane known as the Akatombo, or “Red Dragonfly.” ...

It rained bombs over Nazi Germany and braved skies filled with flak and fighters. The B-17 Flying Fortress became a symbol of ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Here’s a look at the terror attacks in Norway on July 22, 2011. Eight people died in a bombing in Oslo and another 69 people died on nearby Utoya island. This was the deadliest attack in Norway since ...

Bonaventure Cemetery will welcome the remains of a native WWII fighter killed in combat on Friday, the city announced.

U.S. Army Air Forces pilot 2nd Lt. Gilbert A. Rauh, who was killed in action in 1943, will be interred Monday at Arlington ...

In 1946, the US organized a football game featuring a pro fullback and a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in the ruins of ...

Today is a special day for one Westerville man. Albert Surette is a World War II Navy veteran celebrating 100 trips around the sun.

The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched ...

The bomb markings on World War II–era aircraft are "victory marks" and signify successful missions and defeated enemies, and ...

During a foggy night in early September 1942, a local forest ranger spotted a floatplane dropping materials from its fuselage ...