More than 20,000 residents were forced to evacuate their homes on Wednesday in Germany after three World War II-era aerial bombs were discovered. The operation would take the bomb squad hours to ...

While the city was reduced to ashes, Hisako Aihara and her family managed to evacuate in time thanks to a tipoff from a worker at a military facility.

Tokyo’s Sumida Ward memorial preserves the remains of some 105,000 people, including those who died in the massive air raid.

Thousands of people were forced to evacuate a bustling neighborhood of Hong Kong overnight while experts sweated through the delicate work of defusing an undetonated nearly 5-foot, 1,000-pound bomb ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — On April 8, 1945, hundreds of American bombers unleashed a wave of ordnance over this Bavarian village, destroying much of a sprawling military training base and setting ...

German researchers recently announced the discovery of 31 shipwrecks, including a possible steamship that was destroyed in a World War II air raid. The shipwrecks were found in Germany's Lake ...

“Bombing Hitler’s Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe.” by Mike Croissant, Citadel Press, 352 pages, $28.

Rod Davis, an Athens man who over the years has accumulated a wealth of information about World War II, will deliver a presentation on a bombing mission that occurred over Japan on Sunday at the ...

Jo Spencer was 13 months old in 1955 when her father died a few feet from her, on the floor near her crib in Middletown, Ohio. That shell of a man, Christopher Norman Holweger, was just 34. Twelve ...

SOUTH CROYDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As the world marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day, a remarkable and deeply personal wartime memoir is ...

During World War II, anti-aircraft guns filled the skies over Europe and the Pacific with a daily storm of steel, firing ...