World War II

Veterans Day ceremonies looked different this year due to the pandemic, but that did not stop Bay Area residents from finding a safe way and taking time Wednesday to honor those who served.

People across the Bay Area and around the nation on Wednesday paused to remember the sacrifices of those who served their country. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

The United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary with its chief urging leaders of an increasingly polarized, go-it-alone world to work together and preserve the organization’s most important success since its founding

Some U.S. veterans who planned to climb aboard a battleship in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor to mark the 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II instead watched a livestream of the ceremony from home

A German court has convicted a 93-year-old former SS private of being an accessory to murder at the Stutthof concentration camp, where he served as a guard in the final months of World War II

Queen Elizabeth II has made a knight of the 100-year-old World War II veteran who captivated the British public by walking 100 laps of his garden and raising some 33 million pounds ($40 million) for the National Health Service

Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular “Forces’ Sweetheart” who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103. During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, smiling and crying with sentimental favorites such as “We’ll Meet Again,” and “The White Cliffs of Dover.” “The family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of…

Suffragists fighting for the right to vote 100 years ago found themselves hemmed in by the Spanish flu of 1918, their rallies and other gatherings cancelled as they tried to convince lawmakers of their cause. Historians celebrating the milestone this year during the coronavirus pandemic have a new appreciation for what those women accomplished.

This year’s D-Day anniversary in Normandy has turned out to be one of the loneliest observances ever

Seven World War II veterans, ages 96 to 100, joined President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at a wreath-laying ceremony Friday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. The veterans had hoped to mark the day in Moscow, but that idea was because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The British World War II veteran who became a national hero by raising millions to support the country’s National Health Service celebrated two milestones on Thursday with much fanfare, NBC News reports.

More than 3,000 people on Guam are expecting to get long-awaited compensation from the U.S. government for their suffering at the hands of imperial Japan during World War II.

The NFL is celebrating 100 years of football, so, on Super Bowl Sunday, the league invited four World War II veterans who are all 100 years old to take part in the coin toss, including San Diego native Sidney Walton.

New U.S. Navy submarines will revive the names of the USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma, two of the biggest casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, officials said. Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly announced nuclear, Virginia-class attack submarines will carry the names, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Monday. The battleships were badly damaged...

As a schoolboy three quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshift American cemetery — filled with bodies, some headless, some limbless, blood seeping from the vehicles onto the roads that the U.S. soldiers had given their lives to liberate. Sometimes, Schmetz said, there were over 200 bodies a day, casualties…

A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese aircraft carrier that went down in the historic Battle of Midway. Vulcan Inc.’s director of undersea operations Rob Kraft and Naval History and Heritage Command historian Frank Thompson reviewed high frequency sonar images of the warship Sunday and said that its...

Hundreds turned out Friday to honor a decorated World War II Marine in New York after a young friend ensured the 97-year-old’s life and death did not go unrecognized.

A decorated World War II veteran who died this month with no living relatives is being honored by strangers around the world thanks to an unlikely friendship with a young woman determined to give him a hero’s farewell.

This month, 93-year-old WWII veteran Herbert Krueger from Iowa finally got all the medals he was awarded during his service. Krueger earned 15 medals for playing a key role in stopping an attack in Italy, but only received the Bronze Star. He sent his discharge papers to his senator after seeing stories of other aging veterans getting their long overdue...