Mr. McPherson served as a Navy pilot of a Hellcat fighter plane aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex in the Pacific theater.

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

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World War II ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers, following Adolf Hitler’s suicide in Berlin as Soviet ...

At 101 years old, World War II Air Force veteran Lester Schrenk got a dream flight along with other veterans on Monday in a ...

Nearly 80 years after Imperial Japan's surrender ended World War II, the number of American veterans who served in the ...

Trump said officials would “probably” return the Pentagon to the more aggressive name it once held in about a week. Both he ...

President Trump on Monday floated returning the Department of Defense to its prior name, the Department of War, calling its ...

On the wintry night of January 30, 1945, Prison guards and personnel rushed outside the Cabanatuan POW camp in the ...

Bones, likely to be human, have been recovered at a wartime undersea mine in western Japan where about 180 mostly Korean forced laborers died in an accident in 1942, according to a Japanese civil grou ...