V-E Day, on May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe. But we're still learning that conflict's deepest lessons.

Russians marked the 80th anniversary of their triumph over the Nazi Axis in World War II. Footage shows a ceremonial parade honouring the victory in the Great Patriotic War in Belogorsk, Amur Oblast, ...

Truman designated May 8 as VE Day and the western allies followed suit, according to the museum. However, the Soviet Union recognizes its Victory Day on May 9 after having a second set of surrender ...

During World War II, the industrial and manufacturing centers of the United States stepped up to contribute to the war effort. We all know about how Willow Run was built to manufacture bombers ...

(Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) People watch with the American flag as the remains of Lt. Robert McCollum, a US Army Air Force officer, who died during World War II, are brought to Oak Hill ...

The Allied and Axis forces lost thousands of ships during World War II, and many of those vessels ... to which the Malakka responded with maritime flags, making the crew appear to be legitimate.

The war between the US and Japan had started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The Japanese surrender in 1945 occurred after the US dropped ...

The vast majority of the POWs were young men who were conscripted late in World War II into the German military, not dyed-in-the-wool Nazis or members of the Third Reich. By all accounts ...

National celebrations were well under way as Broadcasting House was floodlit for the first time since 1937, and bedecked with the flags of the ... itself during World War 2 and public perception ...

Andy Beshear has ordered flags at all state buildings to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Saturday, April 26, in honor of an Army pilot from Kentucky who died in World War II but ...

Gathering all available troops in the region, the Red Army effectively formed a defensive cordon around the city, trapping the nearly 300,000 Axis troops ... but turned the tide for the Allies in ...

Yugoslavia was dismembered into seven new countries ranging from Croatia and Serbia to Slovenia and Montenegro. But all seemed well in the Western world ... as it had in WWI, WW2 and the Balkan wars.