QUINCY — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Wendell Mauter says it’s important to look back at the global conflict. “World War II helped shape so much of the world we live in today,” the ...

For the American World War II veterans, all in their late 90s or early 100s, the event marked what will be one of the last times they gather to publicly relay what they endured and how it shaped them.

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

Hardly any other country marks the end of World War II with the same fanfare and fervor as Russia, for which the victory over Nazi Germany 80 years ago remains a source of immense pride and a defining ...

DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. — Fifth-grade students from Cool Springs Elementary got a hands-on history lesson Friday at Dinwiddie County Airport, where they explored a fighter plane similar to those flown ...

One of the more notable aspects of firearms designed for war is that they are built to withstand all kinds of punishing environments. Even when produced in mass quantities, these weapons are designed ...