An American World War II-era bomb buried beneath a busy Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, cratering a busy taxiway and forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights, officials said. According ...

The wreck of what was once known as the mysterious “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” that fought on both sides of the Pacific theater in WWII has been discovered lying off the coast of California in ...

A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese flags during World War II before it was deliberately ...

An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and subsequently buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday morning. This damaged a runway and canceled more than 80 flights, but no one was ...

Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer returned Thursday to the tiny village that he and others in the 30th Infantry Division liberated from Nazi ...

TOKYO (AP) — An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 ...

What characteristics define the best World War II movies? Is it the intensity and realism of their portrayal of the chaotic battlefield? How about the authenticity of the heroism and camaraderie ...

A recently refurbished, World War II-era airfield is the second such site the Marine Corps has reactivated this year for air training and operations. The Marine Corps in August announced the $28 ...

Kyodo via AP A U.S. bomb from World War II has exploded at an airport in Japan nearly 80 years after the end of the conflict. The explosion created a large crater on the taxiway at Miyazaki ...

You think you know the history of World War II: The Nazis were the bad guys and Adolf Hitler was probably the greatest villain the world has ever known — the author of a Holocaust that killed 6 ...