From the Archives
DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive
Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."
Ceremony marking 75th anniversary of WWII’s end reflects on a generation’s toil to turn ‘peril into peace’
Seventy-five years ago, 900 bombers and fighters filled the sky above Tokyo Bay, where 250 Allied ships were moored as Imperial Japan formally surrendered during a ceremony on the deck of the USS Missouri.
DC ceremony marks Battle of Okinawa's 70th anniversary
A handful of World War II veterans were the center of attention Wednesday at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the long, fierce Battle of Okinawa.
Guam jungle silently echoes long-ago guns
In a lot of Pacific War histories, Guam is swept aside and banished as insignificant.
How soon they forget, many might say.
End-of-WWII commemoration to be livestreamed from fantail of battleship Missouri in Hawaii
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is slated to speak Wednesday from the fantail of the battleship Missouri in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as part of a commemoration of the end of World War II 75 years ago.
For US troops in the Pacific, the end of World War II deepened the ache for home
Donald Fosburg was off duty and lying in his bunk in the belly of the battleship USS Missouri on a steamy August night in 1945.
Who fired the final salvo of World War II? Depends on who’s calling the shots
The United States was thrust into World War II abruptly with the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941.