On Sept. 2, 1945, Japanese envoys surrendered aboard the USS Missouri, launching an era of alliances and free trade. Now memories of the war are fading — and so is the consensus on how to avoid a ...

The napalm bombing of Japanese cities remains far less notorious than the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even though more people died.

It’s a universal truth: Whether at work, on a road trip or dodging enemy aircraft on long flight missions — sometimes when you’ve got to go, you’ve just got to go. And other times, when a museum ...

When a U.S.-led armada sailed into Tokyo Bay 80 years ago to accept the Japanese surrender in World War II, it was just 27 days after an atomic bomb killed some 70,000 people in a single blow at ...

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor gravely damaged the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet's strength, but fortunately, no American aircraft carriers were sunk in the attack. As a result, when the United States ...

It was — quite possibly — the worst day to make a mistake. Sept. 2, 1945, was the day Japan formally surrendered to the Allies. It marked the official end of World War II. The ceremony happened on the ...

It was a last-minute trip — 80 years in the making. Three Japanese Shinto priests visited the Long Island Museum of American Armor Tuesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War ...