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April 19, 2018

Team backed by Microsoft co-founder locates USS Helena wreck

A Microsoft co-founder's mission to locate sunken warships in the South Pacific has chalked up another victory with the ...

April 16, 2018

Researchers mark death of Pearl Harbor mastermind Yamamoto

A group from the U.S. and Japan is trekking to a remote Pacific island jungle to document what is considered one of the most ...

April 12, 2018

Sirens wail as Israel stands still for Holocaust remembrance

Israelis stood still on Thursday for a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the ...

April 11, 2018

Netanyahu warns Iran as Israel marks Holocaust Day

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday warned archenemy Iran not to test Israel amid escalating regional tensions as ...

April 04, 2018

US museum stalls Hiroshima exhibit over nuke weapon ban push

A museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico — a once-secret New Mexico city that developed the atomic bomb which helped end World War ...

March 29, 2018

Trump to honor deceased WWII veteran with Medal of Honor

President Donald Trump plans to award the Medal of Honor to a deceased World War II veteran who showed gallantry as an Army ...

March 21, 2018

Team backed by Microsoft co-founder Allen finds WWII wreck

The recent discovery of the USS Juneau in the depths of the South Pacific has provided some closure to people with ...

March 21, 2018

Wreckage of ship blown apart in WWII found, offering closure

The recent discovery of the USS Juneau in the depths of the South Pacific has provided some closure to people with ...

March 07, 2018

WWII aircraft carrier found in Coral Sea by Allen expedition

A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the ...

February 25, 2018

Tokyo returns with Summer Games with something new to prove

Tokyo used its famous 1964 Olympics to show off a miraculous recovery from defeat in World War II. Japan was back after just ...

February 13, 2018

In Olympic corner of Asia, web of relationships is complex

When an NBC Olympics analyst irritated South Koreans by crediting Japan for helping the country step toward the future, he ...

February 06, 2018

Tank museum displaying 110 battle-worn tanks opens in Jordan

A museum displaying 110 battle-worn tanks from a century of wars in the Middle East and from more distant conflicts has ...

January 28, 2018

'Beetle Bailey' cartoonist Mort Walker dies at 94

Comic strip artist Mort Walker, a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with ...

January 25, 2018

New Israeli exhibit highlights power of photos in Holocaust

Staring at grainy video footage of Jewish children marching to their freedom though the barbed-wire fences of the Auschwitz ...

January 04, 2018

Japan's Abe: N. Korea should change course, end nuke program

North Korea should shift course and drop its nuclear program and missile tests to become a wealthier nation, Japan's Prime ...

January 04, 2018

Faces of war: Who are the men in soldier's WWII sketches?

Before the Army's 27th Infantry Division was decimated in a bloody World War II battle, Stan Dube sketched portraits of his ...

December 08, 2017

Pearl Harbor survivors in their 90s attend solemn ceremony

Survivors gathered Thursday at the site of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to remember fellow servicemen killed in the ...

December 07, 2017

Trump signs proclamation for Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

President Donald Trump kibitzed with World War II veterans at the White House on Thursday as he signed a proclamation ...

December 07, 2017

The Latest: Hirohito memoir bought by Japanese doctor

The Latest on the auction of a memoir by Japanese Emperor Hirohito (all times local): 9:45 p.m. The buyer of a memoir by ...