Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's ...

Though many Americans believe that the United States and its Western Allies were largely responsible for the defeat of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blinding light like thousands of strobe lights — that's how Toshiko Tanaka described the morning, 80 years ago today, the United ...

The five years of brutal fighting in Europe ended on May 7, 1945. Nazi Germany agreed to an unconditional surrender to the allies. The horrific and brutal Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, had shot himself ...

Soviet soldiers lead liberated prisoners out of Auschwitz in the winter of 1945. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz ...

The Peace of Paris – The treaties worked out in Paris at the end of World War I satisfied few. Germany, Austria and the other countries on the losing side of the war were especially unhappy with the ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension This product includes accessibility features including a table of contents, navigable semantic structure, text-to-speech, alt text for ...

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...